Saturday, April 25, 2009

THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY

The movie that we want to share next, is a kind of slapstick documentary film. It's still be considered as the best and the funniest movie ever. The film portrays the picture that are difficult to see and the angles that unthinkable for people who live in civilized area.

Director & Writer: Jamie Uys
Genre: Action Comedy

Plot: The film is a collision of three separate stories—the journey of a bushman to the end of the earth to destroy a Coca-Cola bottle, the romance between a bumbling scientist and a schoolteacher, and a band of guerrillas on the run.
A Sho in the Kalahari desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle. He takes it back to his people, and they use it for many tasks. The people start to fight over it, so he decides to return it to the God--where he thinks it came from. Meanwhile, we are introduced to a school teacher assigned to a small village, a despotic revolutionary, and a clumsy biologist. Written by http://www.imdb.com/SearchPlotWriters?Colin%20Tinto%20%7Bcst@imdb.com%7D
Thank you: http://www.imdb.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy


Movie Trailer






Thank you: http://www.youtube.com/


Critics


This film is a kind of slapstick; it made people laugh by using painful. Beside those funny things, this is the responsible film, because the director always expressed the idea of old-fashioned on Bushmen, and it can be seemed as looking down on them.
Furthermore the film expressed racism according to the way that African live; it showed that they were out-of-date, low education, and low technology. According to the bottle, the Bushmen is now actually know what is the bottle; and as Xi did not know how to drive correctly, it was anyway his nature, because he spent all his life at Kalahari dessert. White audiences from Western found the film was funny, which government of Trinidad and Tobago first banned the film.
This movie implies that we are the one who makes this world become complex. The bushman tribe can live peacefully until modernization absorbs in their community in a form of Coca-cola bottle. And the producer used Coke bottle, not any other bottle, because they want to tell that the complexity mainly comes from American. Our perception were formed and influenced by American culture. We live according to the rules and afraid to broke it. That’s why we never think out of the box. It was shown in the movie that we are afraid of things we have never seen before and don’t accept the challenge like Miss Thompson is scared of Rhinoceros, but on the other hand, bushman are brave to play with Coke bottle. And also in the scene that Mr. Styne always closed the gate when he drove the car to pick up miss Thompson. That scene made us laugh, and in the same time implying that we really live regarding to the rules.

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