The Gods Must be Crazy

The Gods must be Crazy was very funny.  It started off very slow but picked up and transformed into a great film.  The humor really set the pace of the movie. During slapstick scenes the audience felt the film go by much faster rather than the beginning where the Bushmen were living their daily lives and there wasn’t a real plot in the movie.  The slapstick humor was entertaining at first but it became very repetitive.  When the scientist was crushing on the schoolteacher, he would always become very clumsy around her.  He would trip, break stuff, and just make situations much more difficult.  This just struck me as very annoying.  Other than these minor scenes, I really enjoyed the terrorists who really had no idea what they were doing.  I recall the ones that were playing cards in the jungle destroyed a helicopter with an RPG and began to play cards again, as if nothing had happened.  This signified war was normal in these areas, and poked fun at todays’ terrorism. 

            The director had my attention through most scenes, because of the change in humor and the change in the characters’ pace.  I thought it was really unique the way the film was sped up in some areas of action or how the narrator put words in the Bushman’s mouth because the audience couldn’t understand him.  It made some areas of slapstick humor a lot more original and eye-catching. 

         The underling theme in the film started at the very beginning in the Bushman tribe when the village began to fight over a coke bottle.  It showed humans really only need love, understanding, nature, and work ethic to survive and live a full life.  Man made things only create chaos and havoc.  At the very end the film, when the Bushman gets rid of the coke bottle, the scientist gives him money.  I laughed pretty hard at this signification.  Money is a very large source of our world’s problems.