If you didn't know this story was based on actual events, you'd likely say it was pretty well done...and that would be true. If you were aware of the actual events upon which this film was based, you might be justifiably outraged that it distorts history...but that doesn't mean the film is poorly written, directed, and acted. And this film is in every respect, well done.
I'm not South African but know enough history to realize this a highly fictional story. But, it does try to reflect that reality of the day...whites who were sympathetic to the freedom movement, whites who were irredeemably racist, blacks who were informers and collaborators, blacks who resisted violent revolution, those of mixed race who struggled for acceptance, decent whites who still worked for the apartheid regime...it's all here. For that I recommend the film...it's a film with an important story to tell. It's just not real history.
I'm not South African but know enough history to realize this a highly fictional story. But, it does try to reflect that reality of the day...whites who were sympathetic to the freedom movement, whites who were irredeemably racist, blacks who were informers and collaborators, blacks who resisted violent revolution, those of mixed race who struggled for acceptance, decent whites who still worked for the apartheid regime...it's all here. For that I recommend the film...it's a film with an important story to tell. It's just not real history.