It's some of the purest kino made Lefties may have hated it (and may still hate it) for making Africans look bad or making decolonisation look brutal (although I don't think the filmmakers were trying to give either impression) But it's such pure kino. It makes me weep for how much great kino *hasn't* been made since. Imagine all the films that could have been made by people just dropping into different parts of the middle east during the war of terror/arab spring. Imagine the vietnam kino that could have been made. The Tibet kino. Anywhere the world is shifting there will be kino. Violence is the perfect subject for kino because it's the movement of objects. The transformation of people into objects that can be filmed faithfully. Politically significant violence is the most meaningful violence since it creates the world we live in now. Therefore, politically significant violence is the peak of documentary kino.
(The above, incidentally, is why I think it would be easy to make a [two part] Blood Meridian film. Almost the entire book is external movement through landscape and violence. It's largely a film told through the medium of a book, although the narrator's language in Blood Meridian is itself meaningful for things other than simply what it describes - being as it resembles the voice of the judge and has a kind of minute scientific detachment.)
I agree it's amazing. It bothers people because it's real and they really dont want to look at reality
Charles Ross
Rent free
Ayden Price
Yes, Africa Addio does occupy my thoughts because I have had to sacrifice the path of film journalism to pursue my current road
Kevin Diaz
Some of the stuff that happened during the fall of colonies is carzy and this movie captured tons of it. Great stuff
Sebastian Butler
My dad fought for apartheid south africa in the border war in Angola and has the most kino stories. Wish there were more footage. At least there are a couple decent documentaries at least.
Nathan Barnes
The magnitude of this film is simply god like. I don't think anything can ever live up to it, simply capturing an entire continent devolving into chaos is something we will probably never see again. At least not with such great camera work, score, and editing.
My Grandfather who was in the British army in the Korean war has told me he was in Rhodesia before the handover and went back 2 years later after Mugabi and says that all the farms were gone and the place was so run down. He has said to me multiple times if the Africans are so smart and brilliant why haven't they built a civilisation like the rest of the world, they've been around just as long as the rest of us yet still haven't achieved it. Thats not racist at all thats fact.
Caleb Sanchez
Mondo Cane 1 & 2 are great desu. Although nauseating still great and great music. Goodbye Uncle Tom has great music but again highly nauseating. Africa Addio is pure fucking kino though.
William Gutierrez
Only fucking thread about actual kino why is it dead
Evan Parker
Storytime
Eli Sanders
He was leading an artillery regiment in Korea, not many stories, I asked him when I was young "Did you see any dead bodies" He looked me straight in the eye like I'd never seen before or since and said "What do you think."
Jaxon Lewis
The Zanzibar footage is incredible and for that part alone the movie is underappreciated for socio-political reasons.
Eli Collins
The whole movie is utter kino. But the first 15 minutes with all the parades and cheering that the British have left are so fucking kino it's insane.
Daniel Taylor
i thought it was clear they went into this trying to film some crazy shit and then edit it into something cinematic and sensational instead of making a honest documentary, but what they found there was a little too much even for them to handle. most people call it pure exploitation but i think even though that calculated approach was somewhat the idea they had before they starting filming they could only partially return to that after they returned home and had some time to get back to their own selves. I can see why people cant easily stomach this cinematic and unflinching approach to something that is usually presented as a dry, distanced, "after the fact" retelling of what happened there. Its a very interesting film and im totally on board with unless any of the claims that certain scenes were staged are true.
>claims that certain scenes were staged I call this liberal lies and slander, also probably some African shills who deny history.
Jaxon James
I like the part where the cameraman flies over a group of a few dozen muslims the niggers rounded up into a pen and when they fly back not long afterwards theyre all dead
Jacob Sullivan
1080p when?
Christopher Nelson
Most of them are just stories about the absolute arse whooping that the South African military would give all these rebel groups in Angola and other parts of Southern Africa. And this was in spite of them being backed by the Cubans and the Soviets while SA was completely isolated and had an arms embargo against the country. Meant they needed incredible ingenuity to successfully fight a war. Lots of them ended up working as private military contractors in the middle east and other parts of Africa earning crazy money.
Gabriel Foster
came out a year ago
Jayden Sullivan
Holy shit is it 1080p quality?
Nicholas Taylor
yes there is a bluray, but its hard to find online
Isaiah Young
its not so far fetched, they obviously went there to get crazy footage and they had no problem using music, editing and voiceover to make the footage even more sensational, but its also obvious that they couldnt have staged most of it. its more the reasonable assumption that they faked anything that would taint the experience a lot for me. Im not against this type of presentation but only if the footage is actually authentic.
Julian Johnson
you would not have to fake anything during the end of colonialism to get your footage. The movie is objectively tame in comparison to the extent of what actually happened. To be fair that is true of all war
Oliver Jackson
Any other documentaries that recorded footage a genocide?
This is incorrect. The most objectively based part was when the Italians are about to be shot in Zanzibar(?), but then an officer sees their passports and halts the imminent execution because they're not white - they're Italian
Elijah Campbell
they did get a lot of good unfakable footage but that doesnt mean they couldnt have also staged some of their own, even if it was small things. Their intention was clearly to get as much crazy shit on camera as possible and then highten that effect even more in editing. If they did it doesnt invalidate the real footage but it would make it a lot harder for me to defend these filmmakers. I thought the whole thing was fairly neutral and balanced and not racist at all as many people would claim but i can only maintain that position as long as i can be sure that they didnt cross the line with staging shit.
Kayden Baker
The impression of racism comes when you remove it from context.
Gavin Hughes
I would never even admit to liking Africa Addio around people who might get offended about racism and I would suggest you don't either.
