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The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 historical drama film directed by Kevin Macdonald from a screenplay by Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock. Based on Giles Foden's 1998 novel, its plot depicts the dictatorship of Ugandan President Idi Amin through the perspective of Nicholas Garrigan, a fictional Scottish doctor. The film stars Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney, and Gillian Anderson. The…
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This is actually one of the movies I watched during my lull last year. And this is a post I started writing on Christmas Day. > Now I know what most of y'all are thinking... How the hell does this relate with Christmas? Well it doesn't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But last year in March, I did write a review on the coin which was inspired by events in the later parts of the movie. At that time I had no idea that there was a m…More
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For much of the 20th century, Hollywood, and Western cinema in general, treated Africa as nothing more than an exotic setting or, even worse, the antithesis of everything that was “civilised” and “proper” in the West. This attitude, in certain forms, managed to survive even in later, more “politically correct” times, at least judging by *The Last King of Scotland*, a 2006 period drama directed by Kevin Macdonald. Th…More
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Hello, how are you all? Today I will tell you about a true story. Well, if you were a doctor, how would your life wishes be? If I were a doctor, I would do everything for the common and poor people. Well imagine a qualified doctor, he wants to practice medicine for the people of a poor country. Everything was fine, but it turned out that by going to treat ordinary people, he ended up in a terrible situation that bro…More
In the recent decades there has been a trend towards semi-documentary or fiction-documentary movies. And by that i mean, movies about famous persons, but seen through a fictional character (i.e "Hugo"). This movie presents a fictional scottish doctor in 1971, who, because he is fed up with the petty bourgois of his parents, spins a globus and picks a random destination to go work at. That turns out to be Uganda, exa…More
