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From: marie@harvard.ARPA (Marie Desjardins)
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Subject: Re: Anyone seen "The Gods must be crazy"?
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Date: Mon, 19-Nov-84 17:44:33 EST
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I went to see "The Gods Must Be Crazy" and thought it was very
enjoyable.  I didn't roll around in the aisles as some people have said
but I did laugh (a lot).  Its social commentary is interesting (the main
point it seemed to be making to me was that the aborigine was more
civilized in many ways than the so-called "civilized white men").

The story has two main plot lines that cross in the middle -- one is
about an aborigine who receives a "gift from the gods" that turns out to
be a great curse to his tribe, so he journeys to the end of the earth to
get rid of it.  The other is about a biologist who falls hopelessly in
love with a schoolteacher, but isn't exactly comfortable around women.  

Over all, I think it's a very good movie.  I didn't think it was racist
at all -- the black people in the movie are very primitive, but they're
supposed to be a primitive tribe.  Whoever said that probably didn't get
out of the movie what (I think) the writer was trying to get across --
as I said above, in many ways, the primitive people are much more human
and likeable than the civilized types.

	Marie desJardins
	marie@harvard