The Gods Are Crazy!

“The Gods Must be Crazy” is a very interesting movie. At first, I did not like it but the longer I watched the more drawn into the movie I became. I thought It was funny and interesting to watch that I watched it immediately after it ended. YES! I thought it was that good.

One of my favorite parts of this film is when Stan is trying to go pick up the new teacher. His car does not have breaks so he is constantly getting in and out of the car so that it will keep running. How classic is that? That is stuff that actually happens in real life. That is one thing that makes this movie relatable. You see a couple of things that would actually happen in life. Another part is when the truck gets stuck up in the tree. That I suppose would be situational humor instead of slap stick humor. There is not much slap stick humor in this film but it is still funny to watch anyway.

There are some points of rhetoric that caught my attention. The narrator opens up the film in the beginning with a scene of indigenous people. Immediately after, the narrator takes the audience to the city scene where people are rushing around.  You see people driving to their mailboxes instead of walking to them and other lazy things. This point could not have been made make point of how lazy civilized people are unless he showed both of those scenes. If only one of those scenes was shown then they would not have any relevance to the film and the parallel connection.  The indigenous people don’t have cars to drive and get their water. They have to look for it. They know where to dig to find water all sorts of different ways. Another thing that was interesting here is that people in the city have a complex life style. They have houses, food markets, and even coffee. By 7:30, everyone was on their way to work and 8 double zero means everyone better look busy. The indigenous people don’t have a sense of time like that. They take one day at a time and one duty at a time.

There are two different life styles that are being compared. The indigenous have one mission and that is to get rid of the bottle. The city people have several different missions in every single given day. They have to and learn to adapt to each situation (this term is really called acclimation).   Their life seems more complicated than the lives of the indigenous people.

Another thing I noticed was the voice of the narrator. To me, it seems like the director put the narrators voice in the film to imitate that the gods were telling you the story and not some random character. The title of the movie does have the word god in it so I am sure the narration was intended for some reason or purpose to that.

There are some things to think about that this movie conveyed. The life in the city does seem more difficult but we have a lot of convenient things. Also language is very important. There were several different languages that were used but ever one seems to get along just fine. Overall, this was an excellent and funny movie. I’m probably going to watch it again right now.