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This 4 page paper discusses the 2001 film “Lumumba,” about assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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assassinated. This paper discusses how the film Lumumba portrays post-colonial African culture; it also gives a reaction to the film. Discussion A review by Elvis Mitchell in The New York
Times shows just how clever director Raoul Peck is with this film. Instead of giving audiences a long history lesson, or a linear biography of Lumumbas life, it jumps around,
hitting the highlights much as Lumumba himself jumped around, organizing, inciting, working hard to unite the Congo (Mitchell, 2001). The film begins at the end of Lumumbas life, with soldiers
kicking in his door; then it goes back to the his early work in politics, allowing the audience to see what he did that made him both a hero and
a man so feared by the West that he had to be destroyed (Mitchell, 2001). Lumumba, who is brilliantly played by Eriq Ebouaney, is (or rather was) a high-energy
whirlwind who "barreled through his brief tenure as prime minister of Congo with a compulsion to accomplish" (Mitchell, 2001). The man himself was so energetic that filming his life provides
the strong driving force that the film needs to carry it along (Mitchell, 2001). People who know what happened to Lumumba (its not ancient history; he was assassinated in 1961)
find it very poignant: there is a stark contrast between what he hopes to accomplish and what his end will be. What the film shows us about post-colonial Africa
is that it is often a shambles. There have been other films about the destabilization that occurs when an occupying power leaves; Battle for Algiers is a classic film depicting
the mess in Algeria when the French left. That is often the case. The Congo was a Belgian colony for decades, and although colonization is not an admirable practice, since
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