Movie reviews

The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)

This South African film starts off with the “noble savage” myth on steroids. We are introduced to a tribe of Bushmen and their perfectly harmonious, joyful, peaceful, angelic, natural lives, sharing everything, owning nothing (“imagine no possessions”).

Then, 5 minutes in, we jump to the White man’s civilization, depicted as absurd and unnatural: a fake, overcomplicated concrete jungle with pointless rules and norms.

10 minutes in, we return to the “noble savages”, as a White pilot carelessly introduces the White man’s technology to the tribe, bringing misery and death to their formerly idyllic existence.

The message is that Westernkind and our evil creations destroyed Africa, the “cradle of humanity” according to the antiwhite narrative.