But I think the real protagonist of this movie is the white young man, who talks about how he went from going towards his dream to the disillusionment of his dream, and the physical and mental torture he suffered during the period is unmatched by other similar movies. What's more, at the beginning of the movie, the audience is told: this is a true story.
The white young man studying medicine has just graduated, he has ideals, ambition, ability, and courage. He is quite likable. Probably because he liked me, I followed him into the drama, and to Amin, I was like that young man, I was ignorant from the beginning. Therefore, I even disliked the white man in that embassy. Until the second half of the movie, the truth slowly emerged. The white youth found that his talents were not used to build an idealistic country, or even a normal country, but a hell. He seemed to be a sleepwalker with the dream of "saving the world and saving people", and suddenly he woke up. Seeing that my hands were stained with blood-I turned out to be a murderer. Later, he was trembling and unsure, and asked Amin to approve him to go home. Later, he watched the woman he liked was cut into several pieces, and he vomited on the spot. All of this shows that he is not so brave and fearless. At the beginning of the film, he is just ignorant and fearless. But in the end, what was his performance before he was lifted by the iron hook through the flesh? It is not something that can be summed up with the simple word "brave". He is the peak of his mental shock and torture. He has no hope for himself, and he is extremely angry and disappointed with Amin.
The white youth did not die, and the black doctor saved him by "changing one life for another". This is the highlight of the film. Because he is dead, it is just dead, just as the black doctor said to him when he saved him, "While you are alive, you may also redeem yourself." In this way, sobriety, trauma and introspection constitute the entire cost of white youth. But when it comes to price, there is always a prerequisite, but it is difficult for me to think that he "deserves this report." Why is he paying such a high price? His blood? His youth? His good character? I can't help but think of "Maple", and then there is a lot of history. Sometimes, blood makes people blind.
The black doctor is a very powerful character with few scenes. He knows that saving the white youth is bound to die. It is not a reason for the white youth to "tell the world a real Amin". It is just what he wants the white youth to do (so it is not included in the explanation, but in the He said while bandaging). He was desperate and tired of hatred. He was a savior but had to work under a tyrant. Unlike a white youth, he has nowhere to escape. Uganda is his home. Later, when the gun was pointed at him, he yelled "My wife". It can be seen that he was so desperate to save the white youth that even his family members had forgotten. In the film, he has two short but profound appearances: one is when he heard gunfire and gunfire while discussing work, he immediately ran to the bottom of the building, looking at the thick smoke in the distance and sad, and the other was when he expelled Asian patients. Use your own body to resist violence against patients. However, no matter how angry he is, he is powerless.
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