![]() These early scenes give a very funny view on how the civilized white man has become what he is today. It is decided that the thing is an Evil Thing and must be thrown of the earth and Xixo (N!xau, a real Bushman) is the one to do that. For the first time they feel emotions such as anger and jealousy. The problem is that the gods have given only one object and for the first time they have to share something that is very hard to share. They have never seen anything that is a smooth and hard as this object and they find it very useful. One day a pilot throws a glass bottle out of his airplane and the thing is found by the Bushmen. When they see a plane they think it is a strange bird or even a god. The movie opens with a look on the Bushmen and a narrator (Paddy O'Byrne) tells us what kind of people they are friendly and without any knowledge about the world not that far from their Kalahari desert. We even have the fast forward sequence where people are running away from something. Most of the time the movie is slapstick comedy the way we see it in Chaplin- or Laurel & Hardy-shorts. This is one of those movies where every gag works, no matter how simple and silly it is. Civilized in the white man's eyes, I must add to that. This is not a great movie but it uses the differences between the civilized white man against the uncivilized Bushman and with that simple tool it becomes hilarious.
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