I don't watch that often movies about Apartheid because it's a tough subject and it makes me sad. However, as I decided to watch all of Eric Stoltz's movies I knew that one day I had to watch INSIDE and it even excedded my expectations.
The film is set in the years between 1977 and 1980 and it begins with some nice stock footage of the South African streets crawling with people. Soon we cut to Colonel Hendrick Kruger (Nigel Hawthorne) that receives a new prisoner for his jail: Marty Strydom (Stoltz), who is suspected of Anti-Apartheid activities and doesn't want to make his jail time easy! The Questioner (Louis Gossett) has to be tough on Strydom but when Hendrick doesn't control he feels sorry for Marty and would have loved to have a chance for helping him. And when another anti-Apartheid activist joins Marty in his cell, they'll do their best to be freed even tho it will nearly cost their lives. In the end we flash forward to 1996 with an older Marty that has his final revenge on the Colonel that tortured him in his youth.
While the movie is nearly all set in the jail it doesn't fail to be great because of the acting by the three leads (Hawthorne, Stoltz and Gossett, with Hawthorne playing one of his usual villanious roles well) and of the ending... that was certainly a surprise!
Not to be missed if you are fans of the leads or want to see lots of movies about the subject.
The film is set in the years between 1977 and 1980 and it begins with some nice stock footage of the South African streets crawling with people. Soon we cut to Colonel Hendrick Kruger (Nigel Hawthorne) that receives a new prisoner for his jail: Marty Strydom (Stoltz), who is suspected of Anti-Apartheid activities and doesn't want to make his jail time easy! The Questioner (Louis Gossett) has to be tough on Strydom but when Hendrick doesn't control he feels sorry for Marty and would have loved to have a chance for helping him. And when another anti-Apartheid activist joins Marty in his cell, they'll do their best to be freed even tho it will nearly cost their lives. In the end we flash forward to 1996 with an older Marty that has his final revenge on the Colonel that tortured him in his youth.
While the movie is nearly all set in the jail it doesn't fail to be great because of the acting by the three leads (Hawthorne, Stoltz and Gossett, with Hawthorne playing one of his usual villanious roles well) and of the ending... that was certainly a surprise!
Not to be missed if you are fans of the leads or want to see lots of movies about the subject.