Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Moeder Dao, de schildpadgelijkende (1995)

This cleverly produced selection from over 200 films made of colonial Indonesia has some fascinatingly memorable bits. The crocodile hunt, the shot of the baby smoking a cigarette and sucking his mothers' nipple alternatively and the making and shipping of tobacco.

It is clearly a pinko attempt to get you all shocked about colonialism, but ends up being interesting, informative and a contrast to Indonesia today. The poetry read over the scenes is suitably lefty, and not very good, it is black & white. If you have a better film in mind, see it.

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