Taking a break from the hostile and zombie-like volksstimmung at Nørrebro, I went to watch a flick about someone having had a harder time, just to keep things in perspective:

"The Last King of Scotland" (2006).

The story is set around fictional character Nicholas Gerrigan, a young white male doctor, who in the early years of Idi Amins rule, is hired to be his personal physicist. From there on the story follows the downfall of Amin`s diabolic and insane rule over Uganda from 1971 - 1979.

But finally here is a movie that succeeds in putting the african-black perspective in the front line, free of white selfrigtheouness. The presence of whiteness in the african problem is on the contrary, minimized to a question about "fucking and taking away", which for a good part of the movie left me with great sympathy for the principles of Amin`s project. An interesting twist.

Enough said: of six stars I give it seven. An immensely together and important movie.

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