Marlon Brando brooding portrait with bruised face as motorcycle gang leader Johnny from the 1953 movie The Wild One. (Photo by Screen Archives/Getty Images)
Back in 2001, long before Netflix, long before YouTube, the middle classes had DStv. Fifty channels seemed like wild abundance, although there was mostly nothing to watch. But every now and then the celluloid gods breathed their magic into our box televisions, and we were transfixed and then transformed by cinematic genius.
As a young university student, Apocalypse Now was an encounter with the…
