The Power of One

The Power of One Blog Assignment
After watching The Power of One, I felt that I could better understand the apartheid that took place in South Africa. I learned that the English didn’t get along with the Afrikaners or the Africans and both treated the Africans with great disrespect. The most difficult part of the movie for me to see was when P.K. was at the prison and the guy who taught him how to box was killed. I can’t believe that people actually treated Africans this way. The only good that came out of that was that he became a free man and spoke his mind to the guy before he died. This movie did help me understand what went on but it still confuses me what the word “Apartheid” really means. I know what went on but it is still somewhat hard for me to understand.
Compared to all of the movies that we have watched in Global Ed. so far, this has been one of my favorites. It is a very inspiring film that shows us how wrong it is to discriminate against others just because of their race. This also reminds me of Hotel Rwanda because it is very similar in the way that there is a group of people that hate another group of people in the same country. Overall, the movie, The Power of One was very helpful to understand what went on in South Africa and was very inspiring to see how one person could make a difference.