A powerful movie. Coming from South Africa and having lived in Zimbabwe, a country being ruled by Robert Mugabe, a modern day Idi Amin, I found it difficult to watch. It spirals into tragedy in such a familiar pattern. It struck me that what the naive Dr. Nicholas Garrigan experienced was something like the Mafia. He was given a Mercedes by Amin but didn’t realise it wasn’t a gift but a debt, a payment for his loyalty. He thought he could just walk away when it became unpleasant.
Some real truth though in what Idi Amin says to the Dr. at one point. He says that the Dr. is mistaken if he thinks he can come in as a white man to Africa and understand it, to play in it. He says nothing has been real in the Dr’s life before then but that this, Uganda, is real life.
A powerful movie.
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