A film seen in the class showned by our teacher, «the last king of scotland».
«The Last King of Scotland» is a 2006 British drama film based on Giles Foden's novel of the same name, adapted by screenwriters Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock, and directed by Kevin Macdonald.
«The Last King of Scotland» tells the fictional story of Dr. Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy), a young Scottish doctor who travels to Uganda and becomes the personal physician to the dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). The film is based on factual events of Amin's rule and the title comes from a reporter in a press conference who wishes to verify whether Amin declared himself the King of Scotland. Amin was known to invent and adopt fancy imperial titles for himself.
But like every history, there is two sides of the history. The one that we'll justify is the oppressor named Amin.
There are much perspectives to justify this behave of Amin.
Firstly, there is the psychological, he as a child after his father's death, he were abused by the English army. So, he took his goals to the extreme, because he was mentally affected. His behaviour were caused by his sickness.
Then, the patriotic, he actually made the Uganda nation develop, he actually changed the face of Uganda (about what other people think about it) and the 300 million who were killed while he ruled the country, they tryed to betray their country because they didn't wanted Uganda to grow. And also because other countries were doing it as well.
In third, the well-hearted mind, Amin's intention were good, but his advisores's aid inffluenced him baddly and he just tried to have a strong fist because that's what you need in Africa. And the 300 million deaths were just for protection of the other population.
And to finalize the economist, Amin biggest aim was just to make fortune in Uganda, to the economy growth.
To conclued, in general, while Amin's dictatorship, Uganda's economy grow, but it wasn't well distributed, and that was what caused the misery of the rural areas and the eccentricity on the Uganda's downtown.
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