Catch a fire

Excellent film. Derek Luke is magnificent as Patrick Chamusso, Bonnie Henna does a very good job as Precious, and the film evokes the South Africa of 1980 quite well. A grand film.

The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.

Tim Robbins is very good as Vos, and deserves credit for playing such a vicious, despicable character.