![]() ![]() A narrator (Paddy O'Byrne) tells us about their lifestyle. The film begins with the story of Xixo, or just "Xi" (N!xau, in one of the many spellings of this actor's name) and his fellow bushmen, who live in the Kalahari Desert. The common thread throughout is a very tongue-in-cheek critique, in the mode of a parable, of both culture/society/civilization and views about culture/society/civilization, including politics, religion, mores, and so on. You could almost say the structure is Hegelian, with a thesis, two antitheses, and something of a synthesis at the end. The film works so well because of its odd confluence of styles, which gradually merge. Although my ratings tend to fluctuate on multiple viewings for many films, I don't believe that I've ever thought The Gods Must be Crazy was lower than a 10. "art-house" run in the late 1980s (I can still vividly remember my experience seeing it in the Coconut Grove theater near where I was going to university) to last night. I've probably seen this film five or six times over the years, from its initial U.S.
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