The Sounds of Tsotsi

 

 

 

 

We were prepped on how amazing the music in Tsotsi was, but it wasn’t until I watched it that I realized how much of key role music played throughout the film. It’s amazing how the music is so accurately linked to certain scenes within the film. For example, the up-beat music that played when Tsotsi’s friends asked him what they were going to do that night represented that they were going to get into trouble. Another representation of sound specifically was when Tsotsi followed the young mother into her home. The suspenseful music represented that scene completely. I love how Tsotsi managed to enhance the visual aspects of the film by using the sounds and music at just the right moment.