1980's Film Analysis

In this 1980 film cultures collide all due to a Coca-Cola bottle. The cultures represented in the movie have many things that are different between the two. Not everyone and everything is the same. Nothing is perceived as perfect or normal, even when they collide. Though the cultures of the Bushmen and “modern society” were only but around 600 miles apart, they were nowhere near the same. Due to this, people would have the ideology of them to be similar in some manner but with the environmental and even verbal barrier, this kept them apart. Language wise, the two did not connect at all. Neither one could understand the other. Only in the movie, could one person understand the bushman as he happened to live with them and learn when he once ran away and gathered shelter with the people at a younger age. The Bushmen speak with clicks and little ‘words’ while the modern society in Africa spoke African. In the movie, this langue gap was shown in the court room when the tribe’s man had to have a …show more content…
We use it for all different things. Examples of this in the movie is shown by radios, Jeeps/Four-Wheelers, guns, and t.v. Though we as a more ‘upper class’ society have these things, we have to take cultural relativism into consideration as ‘lower class’ societies don’t have these things. The Bushmen travel by walking and communicate by their separate language. They also have bow and arrow as means of killing animals for food, nothing more. Though not close in our range of technology, they also used the world around them to get jobs done, such as trees to grind food. Another great example played out in the movie was when the bushman found the gun and saw it as a ‘funny stick’. He had no idea that it was a gun and should be handled in a better manner than what he had done so. Scaring the man it belonged to as he thought the male might of wanted to kill him, I am sure the bushman didn’t even know how to even shoot the