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I also think that the film is balanced to the extent that both views for the whites and blacks against

apartheid were shown; this is so because blacks were not the only people who suffered from apartheid.

This can be shown through strong relationship Biko and Woods shared, also when Woods threatened to

shoot the officer if touch his servant Evalina who was black, also the attendance of a few white people at

Bikos funeral.

 As reported by The New York Times “Stephen Biko was a less flamboyant kind of hero, more thededicated political theorist and less the colorful eccentric. Much less is known about him.

 And tragically, his story was a great deal shorter.” I disagree with this statement because to

me Biko was a well known man, known throughout most of South Africa, Biko was also very

flamboyant in a sense that he did not try to make any race superior but equal. This shows that

Biko was open to all views coming from a white man and a black man. The New York Times

review also states that “ Yet ''Cry Freedom'' makes relatively little of this, and in fact

makes relatively little of Steve Biko himself, allowing him to disappear before the

film is even half over. The rest of the time, it chooses to concentrate on Donald

 Woods, the newspaper editor who was Biko's close friend and bravely defied South

 African authorities on Biko's behalf.” I agree with the statement because I thought that Biko

shouldn’t have died so early on in to the movie. I think that they should have shown more of the

struggle that Biko had to face before his death; I also agree that movie was concentrated on

Donald Woods more than it was on Biko.