That’s the name of one of my favorite Bob Marley albums. The bass line is so rich and moving on Stir it Up, Marley’s voice young and passionate. I even love the original record cover design with the simple hinge….

Anyway, it’s a rough segue (I’ll skip the analysis of Concrete Jungle, Stop that Train, Slave Driver, etc.) but I just noticed that the name has also been chosen for a new movie from South Africa about the use and impact of torture. It appears to be a story about a man who is transformed at the hands of a “country ruled by fear”:

“Catch a Fire” is a political thriller based on the true story of Patrick Chamusso, an ordinary man whose life profoundly illustrates why torture is never acceptable. It is the story of one man’s struggle amongst a nation’s, set in a divided South Africa in the nineteen eighties, climaxing in the present day.

A trailer is available here, from Amnesty International. And, surprise, it features the music of Bob Marley.

The reviews look really good:

True to [director] Noyce’s words, Catch a Fire comes to focus on the relationship between Chamusso (played with an appealing mix of defiance and youthful swagger by Derek Luke) and the police colonel, Nic Vos (an excellent Tim Robbins), who interrogates him after his initial arrest. It’s a decidedly complex relationship in which neither man is painted as a saint or a devil and both are shown to be flawed father figures doing what each thinks is right to make the next generation better for his children.