a film that peels away layers

Rating: 9/10 (28 December 2006)

I suggest that the most important feature of this film is that it can help in the decades-long process of peeling the layers of baloney that the west has used to cover its catastrophic history of imperialism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism. Europe has never, ever, not once, taken full responsibility for the massive cultural, political and economic wreckage it brought to the Americas, to Africa, to the middle east, and to southern and south-east Asia. The US, moreover, stepped up to take Europe's place beginning in the late 19th century and has proved to be indeed a child of Europe's obsession with dominance over other peoples and cultures. While the film is still too much about white and European people, at least it points in the direction where most of the world's miseries stem: ongoing western imperialism. -- The struggle continues.