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Written by adorablepanic on Sat Apr 18 2020
Director Barbet Schroeder's 1974 documentary GENERAL IDI AMIN DADA [A SELF PORTRAIT] may be the ultimate realization of the phrase 'give 'em enough rope.' Schroeder just turns the camera on and lets Amin dictate the itinerary. In addition to endless parades involving his obviously strapped-for-resources military (one sequence finds paratroopers training with a metal playground slide while onlookers laugh uproariously), we also catch the dictator trying to (literally) talk to the animals; exhorting his government ministers to be more masculine; lecturing the hospitals' doctors on the importance ...
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