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Oh, dear, what a dreadfully bad film!

Bad plot, bad dialogue, bad acting, bad cinematography (it makes Cape Town look ugly), bad direction (it's slow and boring).

As an amateur effort at film school it should score a resounding fail.

Cape Town is a beautiful place, like anywhere, ugly things happen. There's no need for a film to be so utterly bleak when it's only a pedestrian story.

It isn't its main failing, but the film tries hard to be politically correct - it shows orphan children in the street, for example, but they're incidental to the plot, they're just there to show the film is trying to be 'worthy'. They're less than cardboard cutouts, they're poster victims. Horrible. Just taking advantage of misery to make the films pretend moral position - a ghastly exploitation.

On the good side, the main character can sing. She can't act, but that didn't stop them. The music is OK, but it reveals the ugliness and emptiness of the film, rather than making it.

It's so dreadfully slow, pretentious and portentous, aiming to carry some meaning in tediously long, badly-lit mundane scenes.

On the bright side, since Cape Town is sometimes too full of visitors, anybody who saw this film would keep well away from the place!

If it were filmed in 1930, in Black and White, with no sound, it'd pass as just a bad film. Produced now it is truly awful.

Avoid this at all costs - unless you're a student of why films are bad - it's a great example of utter dreadfulness.

On a simple note. The reason people take drugs is because they give them a good feeling. That's it. The realisation of how awful they are comes later. It's utter nonsense to claim people take drugs simply because they 'don't have a good self image', or similar tosh.

Middle-class white South Africans shouldn't make films unless they can get away from their guilt about being middle-class South Africans. Get over it, chaps! You're as responsible as a street kid for your background - all that's interesting is what you do with yourself as a human being.

This film tells you absolutely nothing about being a human being from anywhere. It could have been made by a blind an feeble martian with no aesthetic sense.

Apart from that, it isn't that bad.