| | |  | SOUTH AFRICA | Home » » The Wooden Camera | | | | | | | Description: | | Sweeping and sensational drama follows best friends Madiba and Sipho as they discover a dead body clutching a briefcase that contains a gun and a video camera. After Sipho takes the weapon, Madiba decides to explore the world through filming his own experiences. Now, the lives of both teens take different paths as they make their way through post-apartheid South Africa. Junior Singo, Dana de Agrella, Innocent Msimango star. 90 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; biography; photo gallery. Filmed in English. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Jean-Pierre Cassel, Junior Singo | | Director:
| Ntshavheni Wa Luruli | | Format:
| Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| TLA Releasing | | Run Time:
| 90 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| March 15, 2005 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 9 reviews |
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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
choose the cameraJan 24, 2007
By Daniel B. Clendenin
In the first few minutes of this South African film two young teenage friends discover a dead body with a huge pistol and a video camera. The shy introvert Madiba chooses the camera, while cocky Sipho takes the gun. The film explores the consequences of those choices. Madiba hides the VCR in a home-made wooden camera, enabling him to shoot everyone and anything on the sly. He experiments with the aesthetic, technical and voyeuristic aspects of film-making. Refracting light with different lenses, candles, floating plastic bags, and even the bubbles of a drink awaken his artistic bent. His cinematic creations form a significant portion of the film. "Some day," he hopes, "my pictures will hang in houses." Sipho's gun awakens in him foolish bravado, and we watch him descend to petty crime, drugs, gangs and finally horrible tragedy. Between them both is an improbable, budding romance between Madiba and a rebellious white girl, Estelle, from a wealthy family with racist secrets of their own. This film is good, not great, but well worth watching for its themes of adolescence, choices, fate, friendship, and racism in a post-apartheid township of Cape Town.
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A tale of friendship and moreOct 21, 2005
By chicoer2003
"chicoer2003"
Wooden Box is a tale of friendship between children of different South African social classes. It's reminicent of a Brazilian slum movie, but with aspects of the ills of society (racism) A good unknown cast of young actors helps the movie.
Interesting and well performedMar 01, 2012
By Ingrid
Starting slow and in a kind of half documentary style and with a feeling of a homemade video to a well developed and so believable storyline - making this a great glimpse into five young people's lives and destinies - based on split-second choices they do. The young actors are doing a fine job and the story is interesting. I really liked and enjoyed this film and I think it ends just perfect. A film worth seeing.
 superb!Jan 31, 2011
By dln819
I loved that the plot was absolutely unpredictable and flowed through the eyes of youth who envision hope and possibilities in this world of mazed impossibilities. It is a journey into again the human condition without solution only the potential for change which is precisely where we are.
UnforgettableJan 27, 2011
By pamela
I saw this movie years ago before I ever knew anything about South Africa or that I would some day call it home. I would highly recommend renting it! It is a simple film but tells a strong story about friendship, the frailty of life and the impact of the choices we make. The film also touches on issues of racial identity and prejudice. Rent or buy it is worth it. At the least your may learn something new!
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