In the start of the movie is Gregory and his family about to leave their home because they are going to Robben island where Gregory had to work as prison guard for Nelson Mandela.
I think it is tough. There are the well ranked officers who gets well respected, and there are the others without that much success who don’t get any attention - We saw that when James Gregory gave the chocolate the Winnie (Mandela’s Wife) where no one wanted to sit by him or talk to him or his family, they even beat him for it.
When he was a little boy, he grew up on a farm. He had no brothers or sisters to play with so the only way for him to have fun was to play with the black kids, and therefore he had to learn their language.
Gregory’s job is to read all letters which is going in and out of the prison and censor all text which was about: politics, other prisoners or the prison’s condition. His other job was to guard Mandela and the others and he was chosen for that job because he could talk their language.
When his boss said, “You let me down you let your country down” He thought that if I didn’t do his job right, he would not only hurt his boss but his whole country and he might have said that because he could see that he was losing faith in his country.
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