I was gonna record it last night, no doubt it will be shown again (and again and again etc etc.)
"Now here's a film that's guaranteed to divide opinion. There will be those who see it as inexcusably racist exploitation that mocks the traditions and expectations of the Kalahari bush tribe, whose peaceful existence is disturbed by a Coke bottle that drops from the sky. But others will applaud the barbed colonial satire that arises when N!xau ventures into civilisation to drop the contentious bottle off the edge of the world. Certainly, audiences worldwide warmed to director Jamie Uys's slapstick style that turned this latter-day Keystone comedy into a cult smash. There are some crude laughs, but the political juvenility is hard to ignore".
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