Resisting Injustice In Darell Roodt’s Sarafina (2020)
This study seeks to evaluate how the different techniques used is Sarafina effectively carry the message of the filmmaker which is resisting injustice. It is a qualitative, hermeneutic research conducted against a social constructivist paradigm. Sarafina depicts the context in which the socio-political resistance of the youth during the 1970s is articulated as well as the internal battle of young black girl who is searching for her place in the struggle.
To test the hypothesis that sarafina is a demonstration of resistance against injustice through songs, narration and black and white lights, content analysis is chosen as the suitable methodology. Content analysis allows the researcher a lot more freedom in reading and analyzing the texts at hand, guided by related literature and the realism film theory.
The results show that the visual and cinematic techniques used, articulate resistance to white oppression and dominance in the South Africa of the text. It also indicates that the songs in Sarafina articulates context depicting socio-political circumstances.
