I think this would have been the 80s, but it could have been the early 90s. I recall my mother was watching a movie or TV show at home, and it depicted a massacre inside a school – my rough memory was an armed Black man with a fully automatic weapon massacred a schoolroom filled with White children, and was so angry he shot them even after they were dead, making them “dance”. It’s possible my memory is off and the races were reversed. I recall asking my mother what the movie was about and she said something like the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa (or in kiddified language).
The scene was so brutal it stuck with me. I don’t recall much blood, but the dead children “dancing” from the bullets has stuck in my head since then. What movie or TV show was this?
It is not porn, in the sense of “hot girl-on-girl action”, more in the sense that idiots like to jerk off to… say… arresting San Salvadorians and deporting them.
The most depressing part of society, with whom we are unfortunately have to live.
But I, despite diving into the depravity of the early 2000s …and actively sharing some of the more horrific ones. I know my porn.
I don’t actually use porn, despite being a single 53 year old, because… it is so boring. My interest in porn was to find the weirdest weird stuff on the internet to scare my friends. And I found someting not even rotten.com would publish, but just weird in a relatively sane way.
Alas, I will not be sharing it here because I’ll be banned SO fast my IP address will not know about it.
I don’t know if this helps, but I have a vague memory that it appeared almost like it was a filmed stage-play. Not sure if that means low budget, or actually filming a stageplay being performed.
I can’t think of any apartheid-set stage dramas that feature Black people slaughtering White schoolkids. That definitely wasn’t the tone of our anti-apartheid theatre.
I’ve met the man via my equally anti-apartheid actor uncle, although when I did I was too young to really appreciate him. My uncle was Professor of Drama at Rhodes for about 20 years, and still performs.
I’ve been a supporter of his eponymic theater venue for years.
(To the extent, I turned up there twice in full drag for the Rocky Horror Show… first night.. oops, wrong booking date. Second night… six inch heels really started to hurt)
I did not get much of the acting skill… but I clearly have that gene because my son is very, very good* in the same genre as Andrew (and indeed, his own son) has largely embraced.
I am proud that both - my uncle and my cousin - have appeared in Cirque de Soliel, which is pretty much the top of phyical comedy.
(☆ Albeit, my son is only 8 years old… but he is genuinely good at physical theatre. )