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"I know who you are and what you are. I am you!"
The first of a double-bill of films I can thank my mother's subscription to Lovefilm for (tomorrow: La Vie en Rose). And the second film in succession where Simon McBurney plays a slightly creepy guy! Yay for the small things!
And this, like Candidate, is not for the faint of heart. 'Historical fiction' it may be, and it certainly overplays the fiction. Yet it does a pretty good job at dramatising Amin's regime too. Though I'm not sure on some of the detail (I don't want to spoil it for anyone by mentioning what I mean), so I'm gonna do some Wiki-ing (it's a verb, trust me). Let's just say there's a chance that more than a fair share of this film is 2006 than 1970s.
Watched this film quite co-incidentally after reading this blog earlier today, entitled "Hollywood Can't Get Africa Right." I'd urge anyone to do the same.
Oh yeah, it's half past midnight - this film still counts even though it finished at quarter past, BECAUSE the disc was scratchy and stopped working after half an hour and wanted to be cleaned. AND I started the film before 11:59. So yeah. New rules, or rather, clarifications :)
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