asons for their choices, and each successfully portrayed the messages that they wanted to get across. Palcy wanted to shock the viewer by visually showing him the social injustices being committed in South Africa. Brink, on the other hand, sought to have these issues resolved. Brinks story was in many ways autobiographical, and almost surely many of his explorations into the moral aspects of what Ben was attempting to do were ways of addressing his own questions and insecurities about his personal choices. It is clear that the film does not reach out to the reader in the same way as the book. The movie fails to explore the simple human morality that is much of a part of the book, and the efforts made to address this subject barely scratch the surface. It leaves the reader with a moral obligation to follow the narrators footsteps, and poses the ultimate question:Do we continue resisting injustice and moral corruption even when resistance seems futile, or do we capitulate and become silent accomplices? Mr. Brink argues persuasively that the answer is ineluctable. One acts, one protests, or one simply forfeits humanity (Watkins 21)....
