gods must be crazy, Zach Pedroncelli

The film the gods must be crazy incorporates two extremes with each other being the conditions and life of tribesman and current day city problems. Many of the scenes had a very animated or fast forward feel to them. The locals lead a very simple life where something as simple as an unknown object causes problems within their society. The other side of the setting shows extreme political and civil war situations occurring in their own society. The battle scenes have an all or nothing feel giving them humorous leads even though it involves the death of many people. This includes the first attack in the banana growing lands where they casually return to card games after blowing up a helicopter. Another scene I found amusing was when the lead tribesman negotiates with the monkey telling him he really doesn’t want to keep the bottle that was previously found by the bush men. A big contributing factor to the humor is the narration of the movie when the Bushmen are in scene expressing the simplicity but ironic situations that they are presented with. One example would be when the tribesman picks up the strangers gun and the stranger runs away and the narrator follows the scene by stating the man must have been scared of the evil bottle. The other part that carries on through the story is that the man always seems in sexual tension with the girl whether he tries to save her from the rhino or the grabbing trees she always had an offensive reaction. All along the bushman is trying to return the evil bottle while greater things happen in the rest of the film making for other humorous aspects. Also the aspect that the gods sent the evil thing and it had originally been a surprise made for a less dramatic surprise when the bushman ran into more new things to their culture. Overall the film was very amusing and my favorite so far of the films we have watched.