Just came back watching "The Last King Of Scotland"....the movie is about Idi Amin and his Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan. I won't tell you why a movie about a Ugandan dictator is called The Last King Of Scotland but in general the movie is good. It is a grim reminder of the reality in a forgotten part of the world. Dictators in Africa are not a thing of the past and movies like these do contribute in generating awareness about plight of a whole continent.
Forest Whitaker has done a great job playing Idi Amin. Idi like tons of other dictators we know about is unsecure and supremely unpredictable. One day the Scottish doctor is his advisor, his best advisor and the only one he can trust, and next day he is nobody. The doctor soon enough knows that for anyone around this monster, the days are definitely numbered. Think of Saddam Husein( and his legendary purge right at the beginning of his reign) and Musharraf's famous purge of folks like Muhammad Aziz( guy who orchestrated the coup for Musharraf when he was in the air)....not to forget the biggest monster of all, Stalin.
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