tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335502008944631925.post1436112652316233720..comments2023-12-30T10:13:15.385-08:00Comments on 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: 382. Mondo CaneAmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701724130997076650noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335502008944631925.post-75591023537310359822020-05-17T09:01:14.781-07:002020-05-17T09:01:14.781-07:00I downloaded and watched over an hour of a documen...I downloaded and watched over an hour of a documentary about the end of colonial rule in Africa before I realised I was watching entirely the wrong movie.<br /><br />A few days later...<br />At first I thought that any claims to be a credible documentary or journal were undermined by the way it was clearly playing it for kicks and laughs. But after a while I realised that this was the point, to play on our susceptibility to see crazy foreigners as shocking, unrefined or somehow lesser than ourselves. And then each time it cuts back to our "civilised" world to show us doing pretty much the same thing.<br /><br />The semi-staged nature of many of the scenes was also jarring at first but also part of the point. And by the end most of the focus is on our willingness as tourists and spectators to gawp at the madness without really caring to understand what lies behind it.<br /><br />All that said, while the principle of all that will never grow old, the examples inevitably have done. If nothing else, the western world of sixty years ago is also like a foreign land to us now, so the comparison of us-and-them becomes void.Dessiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172245410667624187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335502008944631925.post-32376202205646675992017-12-03T13:45:33.818-08:002017-12-03T13:45:33.818-08:00Ew I had blocked this out. Ew I had blocked this out. Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13701724130997076650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335502008944631925.post-63913997419879950362017-11-21T00:44:05.235-08:002017-11-21T00:44:05.235-08:00Maybe had we been around in the early sixties this...Maybe had we been around in the early sixties this would have felt like a fun fair ride in the horror house. Now it was just stupid.<br /> TSorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208153011927807857noreply@blogger.com