A Scottish doctor went to Uganda to escape, but by accident, he became Amin's personal doctor and fell into a deeper darkness. The first half seems to be Snow walking to Yan'an, and the second half is as if Guido and his son entered the concentration camp. Although the story is complete, it is not as powerful as "Schindler's List" and "Life is Beautiful." Especially the later affair between the doctor and Amin's woman is simply a piece of shit that Hollywood never tires of. Just as the American continent was a no-man's land before Columbus went, the suffering of black people is the ecological balance of nature before white people see it. It's as if a cat eats a mouse and everyone laughs at it, but if the mouse is your pet, it's different. It's like the United States has a "Declaration of Human Rights" long ago, but it has been arguing about whether black people are human. Although this quarrel is over, such a concept is deeply rooted.
Westerners like to look at the world of people of color from their own perspective, such as "The Last Emperor", "Anna and the King", "Lawrence of Arabia", and "The Last Dictatorship" is no exception. So even though Amin is such a legendary person, the movie made me feel like deja vu. To be honest, I saw Amin's charisma in the movie, but I didn't fully feel the misery in Uganda. Maybe it's not the director's incompetence, but the white world's deep-seated contempt for savage people of color? Even in expressing their suffering, it is out of pity, without the pain of Schindler's List. It feels as if the British are calling for laws against animal cruelty.
Fortunately, Whittaker's performance lit up the entire film, so that the film did not become garbage. Maybe that's the only thing that impresses me about this movie, isn't it?
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