However, had award-winning documentary filmmaker Steven Silver been aiming to convey the facts alone he would have unlikely chosen to make the project his first feature length film. It would be easy to criticize The Bang Bang Club for glossing over certain hard truths and questionable morals to focus on the boozey lifestyles and love lives of its four main players. Working for photo-editor Robin Comley (Malin Åkerman), the quartet are eventually dubbed “The Bang Bang Club” as they put their lives on the line to capture the brutality and desperation of a country nearing the end of Apartheid. Initially working freelance, Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe) soon finds himself under the tutelage of Kevin “forget the long lens, bro” Carter (Taylor Kitsch), Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach) and Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld), having won their respect with a series of provocative pictures taken inside one of the warring townships. Adapted from the autobiographical book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War co-written by Greg Marinovich and João Silva, writer-director Steven Silver’s dramatization charts the experiences of four photojournalists in the days prior to the downfall of Apartheid in South Africa.
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