Africa Blood and Guts

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Tony S Avert your eyes and pretend that it didn't happen or it was staged. And racist Italians were making a quick buck by almost being killed on multiple occasions for 3 years. But what is shown was indeed an outcome of rapid and unplanned decolonization. Where colonial powers were either forced out by the Africans or pressured by other western countries. Leaving no stable government, de facto abolishing all laws, allowing all the uncountable ethnicities to express their deep seated anger over the last century. And as following years have shown, it was not just a separated instances of brief genocides not by a long shot. If you are dense enough to think, that this documentary asserts, that Africans should be ruled by western powers, otherwise it will turn into Blood and Guts, you either missed the point of all scenes, that weren't gore and shootings or just watched a specific cut, that only has those scenes. The final shot of penguins is this documentary in the nutshell for anyone concerned. For all intents and purposes this is an incredible footage, impressively and artistically edited into a documentary, that really couldn't have been released today. With great soundtrack and it's presentation you should watch it at least once. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/22 Full Review Audience Member One of the best documentaries I had the pleasure of baptizing my eyes with! The camera work is fantastic, extremally cinematic experientially considering the movie was shoot in a war zone. The story it tells is noting short of brilliant! It shines light at important events that now a days are forgotten by history. It's not scared to show the grim realty of this world and I really respect it for that. It's a must watch! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Prosperi's and Jacopetti's debatable views are not as sociologically interesting as the inspirational power of this type of largely forgotten cinema: the shockumentary Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Africa Addio is a controversial documentary due to its divisive content. If you are racially sensitive or too politically correct to open your mind to fact and reality, then this film is best to be avoided. But I sincerely admire this film for its courage to dwell in hostile environments where one's life is highly at risk. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member The makers of MONDO CANE spend three years in Africa documenting the transition from colonialism to self rule, capturing massacres of both wildlife and humans. This is a difficult movie to watch, and to evaluate. On the one hand, there are the allegations that some scenes are staged, other scenes (such as the drawn-out killing of an elephant with spears) are needlessly exploitative and tasteless, and the entire tenor of the film seems skewed towards contrasting European civilization with the savagery of the native African. On the other hand, the directors unearthed an amazing amount of historically important footage of massacres and crimes against humanity that were going on in Kenya, Rawanda and other places in post-colonial Africa, which progressive Europeans of the time did not want to admit or see. A troubling film all around. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Haiti had been doing so well for 150 years, in the early 1960's it was finally time for uhuru (freedom) in Kenya and Tanzania. "Europe, the continent that nursed Africa, can no longer manage this big black baby that grew too quickly and keeps bad company. So it is abandoned, still cranky and immature, just at the moment when it needs Europe the most." Lawlessness brings massacre after massacre. The quote from Berzerker's "No One Wins" sounds much fancier in Italian. An overlong, often gruesome safari through Africa south of the equator. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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