Maleeha Vincent
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
perica-43151
This movie is one gem of World cinema. While some phone popping PC policed Millennials might find it too slow and even boring or insulting, that is deficit of their attention spans and no fault of this masterpiece. Genuine, heartwarming, authentic, this movie is one gift to humanity. A must watch for anyone who loves the art of original film making.
pbrandon074
There are bushmen, who live in the Kalahari Desert. At first they tell us about their way of life. Later there is footage of life in the big city. The narrator keeps talking about modern life. We move back to the bushmen. A man in a passing airplane tosses a Coke bottle out the window. It lands close to the bushman, who has never seen anything like it before. Later it causes all kinds of problems and the bushman tries hide it. Later the leader of the rebels in Burundi trys to assassinate the President. Later they're chased by the military. I think this is a good movie. This is a good movie to watch, i have seen it two times in the last year.
billcr12
"The Gods must be crazy" is a whimsical satire of human nature set in Africa where a tribe leader, Xi(Nlxau) is enjoying a relatively happy life when a Coke bottle is thrown from a passing plane and is thought to be a great gift from the gods. Soon the people find many uses for the magical object and begin to fight over it.Xi takes the bottle to stop the fighting among his people who previously did not argue over property ownership, but shared everything in a communal society setting. Xi starts out on a journey to find the end of the earth in order to throw the evil a Coca Cola bottle into the abyss. Xi wanders into civilization for the first time in his life and encounters warring factions and all other forms of modern day man. This is a beautiful film with a positive message and will definitely bring a smile to your face.
Bezenby
Years ago I caught this film on cable television, and watched about twenty minutes of it before switching off. I thought it was the biggest pile of rubbish that I'd ever seen, what with speeded up Keystone Cops slapstick in just about every scene, and a guy in a Rhino suit pretending to be the real thing. Add to that the documentary style narrative and you have, for me at the time, one of the worst films ever. But I've watched it just now and must say I was well wrong. I must have been in a bad mood or something, because the Gods Must Be Crazy is wonderful.A pilot flying over Botswana throws and empty coke bottle out of his window, and it ends up landing in a village of bushmen. Not knowing what it is, their leader, played by a real Bushman called N!Xau, finds many uses for it before it's usefullness inspires jealousy and envy. Now seeing it as an Evil Thing, he tries throwing it back to the Gods, whereupon of course gravity takes hold and it bounces off of his son's head. N!Xau then decides to head off to the edge of the world and throw it away.Meanwhile a Communist leader attempts a coup but fails, and the authorities chase him and his men into Botswana.Also meanwhile a South African gentleman and his mechanic are asked to pick up a white woman who wants to teach people in a nearby village. The things is, this guy (Mr Stane, I think his name was) gets very nervous in the company of women, and his jeep, dubbed the anti-Christ by the mechanic, doesn't help matters.All these elements come together, of course. N!Xau is arrested for killing a goat (he has no concept of ownership) and is only helped out by Mr Stane and the mechanic (who can speak N!Xau's language). While out in the wilderness working away, they spot, using a telescope, that the teacher and her pupils have been kidnapped by the Communist leader, who hopes he can make it out of the country while using them as hostages. Here, N!Xau knowledge of stalking comes into play.This movie is very odd, but also very entertaining and sometimes touching. You've got to envy N!Xau's simple life, and the bemused look on his face at the idiotic things people in the developed world do is a wonder to behold. So is his language, a series of clicks mixed with spoken words. You get used to the speeded up sequences (Keystone cops rocket launcher attack?) and it becomes clear that there is some genuine humour behind all the slapstick. The scene at the end when N!Xau throws the bottle away in silent contemplation is a cracker (yes - he does find the end of the world, sort of). He must be the least neurotic film character I've ever seen.Highly daft and slightly cheesy, with great cinematography (which was probably missing all those years before DVD), you come away from this film feeling a lot better, which doesn't happen often.
