The Gods Must Be Crazy
"The bushmen of Xi's group are living well off the land. They are happy because the "gods" have provided plenty of everything, so no one in the tribe has unfilled wants. One day, the pilot of a passing airplane drops a glass Coke bottle. Initially, this strange artifact seems to be a boon from the gods — Xi's people find many uses for it. But unlike anything that they have had before, there is only one bottle to share among all members of the group. This exposes the tribe to a hitherto unknown phenomenon, property, and they soon find themselves experiencing things they never had before: jealousy, envy, anger, hatred, even violence.
Xi assumes leadership and decides that the bottle, renamed "the evil thing", must be thrown off of the edge of the world, and he volunteers for the task."
And so he set out to heal the souls of his tribesmen.
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5 Comments:
Fore some reason the pic doesn't show up on my computer. Sounds like a thought provoking movie. Interesting how one object could affect people so profoundly. And it is interesting to see how value is ascribed to things and subsequent cause and effects.
That's some fine Photoshopping. I am an Elephant, but think Obama would do MUCH better than Clinton v.2! Check out this shirt:
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It really is a great movie! I spent most of my childhood in Kenya and South Africa- it reminds me so much of some of the things we saw and went through. It's also quite funny in a British humor kind of way >).
In the lesser-known sequel "The Gods Must Be Crayzees", the Gods are in with George Bush and are conspiring to sabotage the only shaman (aka The Speaker for All The Tribespeople) who is speaking up for the minion tribespeople in the midst of oppression by Republicans and the corporate influences overtaking the countryside.
just for the record, yank
this post or else your *new* commander in chief might decide to precision target a coke bottle from 30,000 feet.
:-)
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