Indelibly, Appropriately Horrifying

[saavedra77]

Although I've definitely seen films with more violence per square inch than Kevin MacDonald's The Last King of Scotland, the latter includes a couple of scenes more indelibly horrifying than anything I've seen since, say, Titus. (These are of course merely tokens of the staggering body count Idi Amin was actually responsible for, so one can hardly complain that they're inappropriate.)

Forest Whittaker is, of course, brilliant and terrifying, and James McAvoy is my new ideal type of the Callow Youth.

Comments

[number42.livejournal.com]

You are entirely correct, although I also couldn't help but wonder how some friends of mine (from the body-modification world) would react to the, err, duty-free gift shop scene.

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

After the movie, I commented to marginalia that the cited scene felt markedly different from the portrayal of similar activities in A Man Called Horse. She made a very salient point about consent ...