- Anvilicious: The film does not let up when it wants to prove a point about how awful life was for blacks and mixed race people in apartheid-era South Africa.
- Heartwarming Moments: The ending, where Sandra, after 20 years of being unable to talk to her parents, finds her mother (her father had already died of cancer) and her mother, near-death herself, gives Sandra a key. Which unlocks a cupboard where she finds a box. And in the box is her teddy bear, the only thing in her life that has never hurt her.
- Moral Event Horizon: Plenty.
- The Headmaster, when he hits Sandra with the cane enough times to make her wet herself (for no apparent reason other than her skin color).
- Petrus' last confrontation with Sandra. There are hints throughout the movie alluding to this before it finally happens.
- Sandra's mother refusing to allow her dying father to speak to her.
- Nightmare Fuel: Some of the sequences, such as the headmaster caning young Sandra.
- Tear Jerker: Quite a few, but the ending of the film is this and a Heartwarming Moment. The scene where young Sandra tries to bleach her skin with bleacher and hurts herself in the progress is just heartbreaking.
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