Goodbye Uncle Tom

SpiritualONE · (#1 (**permalink**))

http://www.blue-underground.com/movie.php?movie_id=40

colo-mentality · (#2 (**permalink**))

do you know where i can download a copy?

Er, preferably the Mondo Cane collection!

It is a deeply disturbing piece based on the previews i've seen

SpiritualONE · (#3 (**permalink**))

colo-mentality wrote:

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do you know where i can download a copy?

Er, preferably the Mondo Cane collection!

It is a deeply disturbing piece based on the previews i've seen

Tell me If This works:

SpiritualONE · (#4 (**permalink**))

More of The Collection of Movies Can be Bought at:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...i=reviews&n=130

zaghawa · (#5 (**permalink**))

SpiritualONE wrote:

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More of The Collection of Movies Can be Bought at:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0....iews&n=130

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Interesting what one reviewer wrote... these films are not for the squemish

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Perhaps the most controversial film made by Prosperi and Jacopetti was "Africa Addio" ("Farewell, Africa"), an attempt to document the changes in Africa during the time when the European imperial powers granted independence and withdrew from the continent. Ultimately accused of racism by critics for their unflinching portrait of a region gone mad, "Africa Addio" reveals in grisly detail the monstrous crimes committed by indigenous Africans against the remaining white settlers and the local wildlife. Large segments of the film show poachers brutally killing animals in the parks set up by Europeans. Moreover, the killing extends to humans as civil wars break out across the continent, with Africans killing each other, slaughtering Muslim minorities, and battling white mercenaries. Two executions caught on camera eventually resulted in charges against Gualtiero Jacopetti, who stood accused of orchestrating the killings for the camera (he was eventually exonerated). As tough as this film is to watch, try and look past the bloodshed and enjoy the panoramic scenery found in nearly every scene. Africa, despite all of its troubles, truly is a beautiful land.

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Nothing will prepare you for the nightmarish images in "Addio Zio Tom," (Goodbye Uncle Tom) a film made to counter charges of racism stemming from the "Africa Addio" experience. Fashioned as a sort of pseudo documentary where the filmmakers go back in time and visit the American South during the slave era, the movie is a grim look at the degrading conditions faced by Africans brought here as chattel. Every scene is absolutely mind blasting stuff, a horrific recreation of such abhorrent activities as the breeding of slaves, the formulation of scientific racism, hunting down and killing escaped slaves, the sickening conditions of the slave ships, the slave markets, and a billion other objectionable situations. The filmmakers based their film on written records and accounts of slave life, ultimately using the issue of slavery to make a statement about contemporary (1960s and 1970s) American race relations. Be sure and watch both versions: the English language cut is an entirely different film from the director's cut. Both are grueling experiences tempered only slightly by Riz Ortolani's FANTASTIC musical score (Ortolani scored "Mondo Cane" as well and snagged an Academy Award nomination for the song "More" from that film).

SpiritualONE · (#6 (**permalink**))

http://knowledgeisthekeyradio.com/gbut/gbut1_player.swf

The movie can be seen free at the above link!

Michelle33 · (#7 (**permalink**))

Thanks, I'm going to watch it and come back.

SpiritualONE · (#8 (**permalink**))

Michelle33 wrote:

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Thanks, I'm going to watch it and come back.

Michelle 33,

Were you able to watch the movie?

Michelle33 · (#9 (**permalink**))

Yes although I haven't finished watching it. I'm about half-way through. I really don't know how to describe it so far. It's trying to be as honest as possible so things aren't really toned down, but then some of the acting is very bad. It's got the "The Gods must have been crazy" filmmaking style about it but it has many disturbing and hard to watch scenes such as the rats biting the men on the ship, a man with the runs and the man screaming when his testes are taken off with what looked like a pair of agricultural tongs

Then there's a comedy moment with the dwarf and the woman in the corset

?? It throws you off a bit.

I would say it is brutally honest with what I've seen so far so for anyone who is naiive, you need to wake up. I'll come back when I've finished watching it.

SpiritualONE · (#10 (**permalink**))

Michelle33 wrote:

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Yes although I haven't finished watching it. I'm about half-way through. I really don't know how to describe it so far. It's trying to be as honest as possible so things aren't really toned down, but then some of the acting is very bad. It's got the "The Gods must have been crazy" filmmaking style about it but it has many disturbing and hard to watch scenes such as the rats biting the men on the ship, a man with the runs and the man screaming when his testes are taken off with what looked like a pair of agricultural tongs

Then there's a comedy moment with the dwarf and the woman in the corset

?? It throws you off a bit.

I would say it is brutally honest with what I've seen so far so for anyone who is naiive, you need to wake up. I'll come back when I've finished watching it.

I've watched it twice and I've also read many books on chattel slavery. When europeans dehumanized Afrikans, they did a thorough job on some of us. Some people don't know that they are still mentally enslaved and they are happy when they are treated like a trained dog.

You are right! This is not a movie for the mentally challenged.blktypeniceone.gif

Mokele Mbembe · (#11 (**permalink**))

Just watched that movie a few weeks ago. Still trying to find the words to describe...

I think it was an awful movie. Just awful.

The makers apparently made a movie on Africa beforehand and were called racist for it so decided to make this movie about slavery to sorta make ammends.

Well....

It's supposed to be like a documentry set in the slavery period in America. The scenes are quite brutal and viscious, even those which don't portray violence. The insidous dehumanising effect of the movie is almost unbearable. See I used to complain that things like Roots and Amistad were too sanitised and that the makers of those things didnt want to REALLY get in to it. I won't make that complain any more if this is what happens.

I can't express how bad it was. There was no story or seeming purpose to the film. Just random scenes of depravity and nastiness. Filth (literal) and nudity were the order of the day. Paedophillia and so on. There was no POINT to all this. It seemed voyeuristic and as if the directors were taking pleasure in filming these scenes, like it was titilation rather than education.

The contrived scene at the beginning with the slave owners was farcical and the people at the dinner table looked like caricatures of southern stereotypes. One dimensional figures with wooden acting and stupid dialogue. I knew the movie was gonna be bogus when I saw one of the slaves throw bones under the table to some lil naked black kids... like dogs. They also tried to throw lil messages in (like I would miss them) "whites in their thousands died to free black slaves". That wasn't what the civil war was about at all and they slyly tried to put it in there.

The last scenes descend from vulgarity in to complete foolishness. Some modern brothers invading white suburban homes and smashing white babies against the wall and cutting families necks and so on in a bloody frenzy. Who are they trying to convince or scare here? What is the intention of a stupid scene like that after that "doccumentry"? I felt that was very sinsiter. First the dehumanisation which was presented as catharsis for blacks but has a very different agenda imo, then the demonisation and scare mongering...

I was not impressed at all. This film was recommended me by some conscious individuals who said it was essential viewing. I regret having seen that.

Awful. Spare yourselves