Few days ago, I had nothing to do that I went through the whole PPS list of movies and found some really epic classic movies. Two of I had watched was “The God Must Be Crazy” and its sequel. These two movies are from the 80’s and I am not sure whether any of the peers my age had ever watched or even heard of these movies. “The God Must Be Crazy in China” might have some viewers as it’s a Hong Kong production.
I really got attached to my seat although there are some slight connection problems that cause the movie not to be buffed smoothly. Nevertheless, the time used to watch the two movies is worth it. The main actor from Namibia, N!xau was effectively portrayed as the indigenous tribal population distanced from modern civilization. The story had started off with a narration about life of the human in the modern world and those in the wild safari of the Kalahari Desert.
The narration was quite critical with some sense of humor brought into it. Comparing the so called civilized world to the tribal life, the narrator suggested that humankind are trying to make their environment suits them, through building of skyscrapers and usage of transportations. But as they develop, humankind moved too fast and does not know how to limit their expansion in knowledge and reliance on technologies in their life. From my point of view based on the scene in the current world, the predictions from this movie seems to come through.
How many people today can really survives the day without any technological assistance? Let’s say the telephone, those traditional ones. No one will use smoke to convey message long distance anymore. Or there is? The narrator also suggested that the advancement of these technologies had not made life easier for human but brought by even negative impact, which I truly agree. The part which I agree most is students need to learn more and more by the year to fully understand their life. A simple Kalahari Desert bushman need not learn that much, and they just need to learn to understand their basic environment. Technologies had made us needing more than 15 years of studies, so I would like to fuck those who initiate the Industrial Revolution.
One more interesting thing that the narrator brought up is the fixed lifestyle of human, which 7.30AM is the time to wake up and 8.00AM is a time to work and the day routinely goes by. Quite interestingly, there are actually no rules specify that we should follow that routine, but people are just following the flow. This was also portrayed in an episode in the cartoon “Dilbert” where the main character is confuse why on Earth people follow the status quo and caused rush hour which lead to traffic jams. You can see it in every city in the world, with KL not exempted.
After the narrations that had caught my attention, the story starts with a pilot throwing an empty bottle of Coca-Cola out of his plane and fell in front of the main character (although I feel that his part in the movie is more complementary.) Unknown to the tribe of the existence of a bottle, he sees it as a gift from god and brought it home. He found it useful in their daily life but as days gone by it became a nightmare for them, which they subsequently labelled the bottle "The Evil Thing".
They had always thank their god for supplying plenty of resources but sadly the god just gave them one bottle, forcing them to try to own the bottle and not sharing it. It caused hatred among this innocent tribe. They had a discussion and agreed to give it back to god but throwing up in the air won’t really make your stuff be returned to god. Well, they don’t know about it. How innocent. LOL Then Xi volunteered to throw it into the edge of the world, which he presumes can be reached through 20-40 days of journey to the East. LOL What the fuck! =.=
Then the story alternates between the modern world’s rebellions and the journey of Xi. The movie then started to drive towards the comedy part. One part which makes me remembered the most is the rebels take cover in the banana plantation as they were hunted by the army. The movement was so cartoon-like especially the person who reloads the bazooka. For more about the movie, watch it yourself. LOL But Xi successfully throw the bottle into the edge of Earth in the end of the story.
The 1989 sequel to this 1981 movie also has the same genre, comedy with alternation between Xi and modern humans. This movie was more on the value of family and was focused on the illegal ivory trade in Africa. Xi’s children was transferred unintentionally by an ivory hunting vehicle and Xi run miles after miles to find his lost children. Although the plot is not as good as the first movie, it is more hilarious especially the encounter between the two American main characters with Xi, a local military official and a Cuban rebel that somehow was in Africa. The story end in a touching note, in which Xi hugs his children and has tears flowing down their eyes.
Some really old movies are better than the movies being screened in the theaters now. They also ought to bring our family are moral values more often as compared to the for entertainment only modern creation. One example is Avatar which I will rate it lowly in terms of the plot and also the acting. I do admire its graphic but being beaten by Hurt Locker in this year’s Academy Award is truly justified. Avatar is just not Oscar material. Another thing is I feel that science fiction movies that are produced in the 90’s are significantly more interesting than the current ones, notably my favorites “Minority Report” and “The Fifth Element”.
People’s tastes changes as time passes, but I feel that my time stopped in the 80’s and 90’s. Hopefully in this decade there will better movies on the table for us. ^^
I really got attached to my seat although there are some slight connection problems that cause the movie not to be buffed smoothly. Nevertheless, the time used to watch the two movies is worth it. The main actor from Namibia, N!xau was effectively portrayed as the indigenous tribal population distanced from modern civilization. The story had started off with a narration about life of the human in the modern world and those in the wild safari of the Kalahari Desert.
The narration was quite critical with some sense of humor brought into it. Comparing the so called civilized world to the tribal life, the narrator suggested that humankind are trying to make their environment suits them, through building of skyscrapers and usage of transportations. But as they develop, humankind moved too fast and does not know how to limit their expansion in knowledge and reliance on technologies in their life. From my point of view based on the scene in the current world, the predictions from this movie seems to come through.
How many people today can really survives the day without any technological assistance? Let’s say the telephone, those traditional ones. No one will use smoke to convey message long distance anymore. Or there is? The narrator also suggested that the advancement of these technologies had not made life easier for human but brought by even negative impact, which I truly agree. The part which I agree most is students need to learn more and more by the year to fully understand their life. A simple Kalahari Desert bushman need not learn that much, and they just need to learn to understand their basic environment. Technologies had made us needing more than 15 years of studies, so I would like to fuck those who initiate the Industrial Revolution.
One more interesting thing that the narrator brought up is the fixed lifestyle of human, which 7.30AM is the time to wake up and 8.00AM is a time to work and the day routinely goes by. Quite interestingly, there are actually no rules specify that we should follow that routine, but people are just following the flow. This was also portrayed in an episode in the cartoon “Dilbert” where the main character is confuse why on Earth people follow the status quo and caused rush hour which lead to traffic jams. You can see it in every city in the world, with KL not exempted.
After the narrations that had caught my attention, the story starts with a pilot throwing an empty bottle of Coca-Cola out of his plane and fell in front of the main character (although I feel that his part in the movie is more complementary.) Unknown to the tribe of the existence of a bottle, he sees it as a gift from god and brought it home. He found it useful in their daily life but as days gone by it became a nightmare for them, which they subsequently labelled the bottle "The Evil Thing".
They had always thank their god for supplying plenty of resources but sadly the god just gave them one bottle, forcing them to try to own the bottle and not sharing it. It caused hatred among this innocent tribe. They had a discussion and agreed to give it back to god but throwing up in the air won’t really make your stuff be returned to god. Well, they don’t know about it. How innocent. LOL Then Xi volunteered to throw it into the edge of the world, which he presumes can be reached through 20-40 days of journey to the East. LOL What the fuck! =.=
Then the story alternates between the modern world’s rebellions and the journey of Xi. The movie then started to drive towards the comedy part. One part which makes me remembered the most is the rebels take cover in the banana plantation as they were hunted by the army. The movement was so cartoon-like especially the person who reloads the bazooka. For more about the movie, watch it yourself. LOL But Xi successfully throw the bottle into the edge of Earth in the end of the story.
The 1989 sequel to this 1981 movie also has the same genre, comedy with alternation between Xi and modern humans. This movie was more on the value of family and was focused on the illegal ivory trade in Africa. Xi’s children was transferred unintentionally by an ivory hunting vehicle and Xi run miles after miles to find his lost children. Although the plot is not as good as the first movie, it is more hilarious especially the encounter between the two American main characters with Xi, a local military official and a Cuban rebel that somehow was in Africa. The story end in a touching note, in which Xi hugs his children and has tears flowing down their eyes.
Some really old movies are better than the movies being screened in the theaters now. They also ought to bring our family are moral values more often as compared to the for entertainment only modern creation. One example is Avatar which I will rate it lowly in terms of the plot and also the acting. I do admire its graphic but being beaten by Hurt Locker in this year’s Academy Award is truly justified. Avatar is just not Oscar material. Another thing is I feel that science fiction movies that are produced in the 90’s are significantly more interesting than the current ones, notably my favorites “Minority Report” and “The Fifth Element”.
People’s tastes changes as time passes, but I feel that my time stopped in the 80’s and 90’s. Hopefully in this decade there will better movies on the table for us. ^^
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