God is crazy: the collision of primitive and civilized

Daphney 2021-12-21 08:01:21

Africa is always indispensable in the world of light and shadow, a continent full of mystery. There has been a beautiful love story "Out of Africa"; there has been a thrilling treasure hunt "The Mummy"; there has been a suspenseful classic "The Tragedy on the Nile"; there has also been a real war "Black Hawk Down", Hollywood Film directors always like to focus on the poverty, backwardness, and wars of Africa, but few people pay attention to the charm of this continent, the pristine forest scenery, the endless grassland, the vast desert...in this beautiful picture Behind the landscape painting is not only poverty and hunger, but also wonderful and interesting. "God Is Crazy" is just such a comedy film full of humorous plots with the natives of the African continent as the main characters.

In the movie, the indigenous Bushi people live in the desert of Namibia. It is a paradise. The civilization of the Bushi people still stays in the Stone Age. They never know the outside world. They don't have any concept of civilization. That's it. A primitive clan has the best side of human nature. There is no sin, hatred, jealousy, and shortcomings in human nature in this tribe. They are the simplest, the most kind, and the most innocent. Until one day something changed their lives, this was an empty Coke bottle. It was this Coke bottle that made the simple residents here have a strong possessive desire for the first time. Everyone wanted to keep this god-given holy artifact. Used by his side, selfishness, this mentality that has never appeared before spread quietly among the tribe. The indigenous people who found the bottle hoped to feel this bad mood. In his opinion, this is an ominous thing thrown by God. He should be returned to God, so Xi took the bottle and embarked on his interesting adventure.

"God Is Crazy" is the best comedy I have ever watched. Compared with the low-level fun comedies led by the Apato Gang in Hollywood, "God Is Crazy" really shows the connotation of humor. The plot design of the movie always makes people smile inadvertently. This kind of joke is really cute, not the "thunder" in some ridiculous spoof movies nowadays that makes you laugh. The sources of the jokes in the movie are also diverse. There are male protagonists who look like Martha, the ignorance of indigenous people, there are misunderstandings and collisions between different cultures, there are frequent misunderstandings of the male protagonist by the heroine, and of course the lovely ones on the African continent. Animal friends. In the plot design, the screenwriter also cleverly interspersed the above several laughs together reasonably. In the process of the film, I was inadvertently deeply attracted by the plot of the story, and every laugh appeared. Can really make me smile. Fortunately, there is no movie that can make me so happy. It has a relaxed, humorous, and perfect ending. "God Is Crazy" has everything that a comedy has, and it has what many comedies don’t, that is satire, in many literary works In China, writers always like to use humorous methods to satirize the sordidness and darkness of society, and in this small-cost comedy, I can more or less see some irony, and this kind of irony comes from the movie A very important clue in the Coke bottle.

In fact, the film has been making a comparison from the beginning. The picture at the beginning of the film is a desolate desert, a primitive Bushi tribe. After the narration introduces this race, the film lens immediately shows a busy modern city, busy and busy. The city and the desolate desert form a sharp contrast, and the office workers in the busy city and the leisurely Bush people are also a contrast. When the Coke bottle falls from the sky, it symbolizes the extension of industrial civilization to this primitive tribe. The tentacles, and that Coke bottle is the entire industrial society, a symbol of human modern civilization. Two completely different cultures are undergoing a fierce collision in an instant. This is the collision of primitive against civilization and the collision of primitive ecology against industrial society. Lamented that the great industrial revolution brought a comfortable modern life to mankind, but the product of the industrial revolution, the Coke bottle brought convenience to the Bush people, and immediately had an adverse reaction. The people competed with each other for it. There was friction, which had never been seen in the past. Greed, jealousy, and even hatred began to spread in this simple nation... and it was a Coke bottle, the product of this industrial civilization, that caused all this. This is not only a kind of contrast, but also a kind of irony, a kind of irony to modern civilization. Modern industrial civilization itself was established in blood and tears, amid the destruction of countless primitive civilizations. The kindness and simplicity of the Bush people in the movie teaches countless people who think they are living in a civilized society. And this is what makes "God Crazy" different from ordinary comedies. It is like a "Aesop's Fables" after we laughed and couldn't help but make us reflect on ourselves.

The picture of "God Is Crazy" is also very beautiful. Although it is not as beautiful as the filming of the African continent for the same African theme "Out of Africa", this small-cost comedy still allows us to see a harmonious Africa. With style paintings, the native actors who played Greek in the movie gave me 90 minutes of fun with the most primitive performances. The rich expressions and body language allowed me to see the real comedians who had been missing for a long time.

The fierce collision between primitive and civilization produced this humorous and interesting story. I really don't know what other words can be used to describe this movie. This is a real comedy, a movie that can make me happy for a long time after watching it.

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Extended Reading
  • Natalia 2021-12-21 08:01:21

    Every civilization has its own value, and every culture should be respected. When a "civilized" society and its members, flooded by technology and modernization, face an isolated ethnic group and come to a barren land, they will find that they cannot survive. And the values ​​they advertise will be like a human skin mask peeled off by the scorching sun, contention and fight, intrigue, is a civilized society really civilized?

  • Shany 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    If you don't look at the behind-the-scenes information, most people may think that this is an African adventure film made by an American director, but it is actually produced by a native African director. Director Jamie Uyth is from South Africa, which has a better economic development. [God Is Crazy] is one of the most famous African films to date, but the core of the story departs from the mainstream issues of indigenous African films and falls back to the comedy line of Western films—the bizarre experience of white people breaking into indigenous tribes. The native Li Su plays the parent of a primitive tribe in the film, who does not understand the language of modern society. He picked up the Coke bottle that fell from the sky as a sacred object, but it caused the clan to fight, so he decided to return the Coke bottle to God. The conflict between the modern and the primitive, sparks all kinds of jokes. The filmmakers in Hong Kong, China also saw business opportunities for the film and invited Li Su to Hong Kong to star in the comedy [African Monk] [African Superman] [Hong Kong is also crazy]. Lisu himself did not adapt to city life, and after the "God is crazy" craze faded, he returned to the tribe and died of illness in 2003.

The Gods Must Be Crazy quotes

  • Policeman: [to blindfolded assassin aboard helicopter] Where is Sam Boga?

    [Assassin shakes his head]

    Policeman: Where is your hideout?

    [Assassin won't talk, so he pushes him out the open helicopter door. Assassin screams, but only falls a few feet because the helicopter is still on the ground]

    Policeman: Next time you're gonna be a bit higher!

    [laughs loudly]

  • Narrator: The hairy one said, "We don't want the thing. You have to throw it away yourself." He was very disappointed. He thought it was unfair of the gods to make him throw the thing off the Earth. In fact, he began to doubt if they really were gods.