Movie Tsotsi Role in Society Essay

In the beginning of the movie Tsotsi role in society is the gangster. Him and his gang lurk around the urban area of South Africa flavour for people to mug. In this movie you can see how his sub-culture has a opinion on him also the struggle theory by Karl Marx and Web DuBois comes to play. The conflict theory states that Conflict is a part of our progression. It actually causes the change. The with the main share in this movie is a young man who plays the role of a gangster hiding the fact of his traumatic experience at a young age, when his abusive father killed his m some other and kicked the familys dog. This experience changes him and makes him more of a harsh person.Later on him the movie Tsotsi commits a looting for a cleaning womans Mercedes-Benz he takes the lady out of her automobile and shoots her then takes off with the car. What he didnt expect was the lady had her ball up in the cover seat of the car. When he realizes the baby in the back seat of the car he foll ows a woman with child spot and forces her at gunpoint to collapse the child.This might sound like a very hostile act to some but why would a gangster put a gun to a woman to feed a child that is not his. This shows a change in his counsel of thinking because instantaneously he is thinking of another life other than his. Then he goes back to the house where the baby lives with his gang as an attempt of robbery but in actuality he is overtaking to lay out the babies bag from his room.Now he goes back to the lady for the lady that he put at gunpoint to feed the child for another ply and she realizes that the baby is stolen and tells him to give the baby back he already took the womans legs at least give her back her child and he listens.Now you can see how the conflict theory comes to play he changes from a gangster to a father of a stolen baby now hes listen to a woman he just now even knows to do whats right for that childs life. He leaves is counterculture (gang) and does t he right thing knowing that he will be going to jail for kidnapping, car theft and attempted murder.