Today we watched a movie called The Gods Must Be Crazy. I watched this movie a few years ago. Today was the second time I watched it. I discovered a new perspective. I found out that a book entitled Ishmael has a lot of connections to the movie. In the movie, they show how different our lives are from those of the bushmen. In a bushmen’s life, there is no hatred, jealousy, anger or violence. They do not really need to worry about anything. They hunt what they need to eat. They follow the "laws". It is same as what the Leavers do in Ishmael. The Takers drive vehicle from place to place, and then work with a fulltime schedule But Leavers just wake up everyday and do whatever they want, without stress or a schedule. There's one scene that shows the terrorists breaking into a conference and killing people. If you tie this into the book, it can be explained that Takers are killing the competitors in order to get to the top and conquer the world. I think these are the insights I gained from the second time watching the movie!
The first few days in Ecuador
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Our group arrived on January 8th in Quito, Ecuador at around 11pm at night.
We went straight back to our cute little hotel. We woke up the next morning
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12 years ago
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Remind me to look for that book! In all its comedic and slapstick portrayal, I think this movie is amazing. The plots are lucid and very easy to follow. And, of course, the storyline about the bottle of soda that caused chaos and commotion on the tribe is unique and utterly funny.
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