Cinema Politique

During the spring semester, movies will be shown the third Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Miller Learning Center. Mudde noted that, while the primary audience for the program is students, all members of the UGA and Athens communities are welcome to attend. He said that this semester will be a trial run to work out structural and logistical issues.

The first film on Wednesday Feb. 15 Tsotsi (2005), will be introduced by a discussion led by William Finlay of the department of sociology. A South African hoodlum named Tsotsi lives by a code of violence, and he and his gang of thugs prowl the streets of Johannesburg day and night, attacking those who fail to give them what they want. After casually shooting a woman and stealing her car, he discovers her baby in the back seat. Instead of harming the infant, he takes it home and cares for it. The child acts as a catalyst for the hardened thug to regain his humanity.

This should be a great series. Schools and colleges around campus work hard to distinguish ourselves but we also work together to move the whole learning environment forward and this is a strong expression of that commitment.