King Leopold's Ghost
If you're interested in such films as "Hotel Rwanda" and the new drama about Ungandan dictator Idi Amin, "The Last King of Scotland," you'll want to check out the documentary "King Leopold's Ghost." Now at the Chinese 6 at Hollywood and Highland, the film offers a detailed, mostly appalling trove of information about Central Africa's agonized colonial past, and puts the horrors that have plagued the region to this day in clear context.
Based on the best-selling book by Adam Hochschild, "Ghost" charts the devious efforts of Belgium's King Leopold II to turn the vast, resources-laden Congo into his own personal slave state in the late 19th Century. Locals were forced to harvest everything from rubber to coffee to gold for little or no pay. Reluctance to do the job was met with whippings or worse; a particularly popular punishment was hand amputation, and the film presents a horrific gallery of victims' photos.
Upon Leopold's death, the Belgian government took over and exploited Congo in prety much the same manner up to its 1960 independence. But things didn't change much then, either; kleptocrat Mobutu Sese Seko, who called the nation Zaire, exploited his people and resources for decades until he was chased out, and the country has been in chaos ever since - with overflow from fighting in neighboring nations like Rwanda and Uganda not helping matters any.
Director Pippa Scott makes a convincing case that Western desire for Congo's riches is still the main cause of the country's torment. It seems like whenever demand for one resource waned, a new one was discovered: uranium in the mid-20th Century; now coltan, a vital component of computers, cell phones and other modern communications technologies.
With its wealth or archive and newly shot material, "Ghost" is not a pleasant film, but it is a fascinatingly informative one.
An interesting side note: As a young actress, director-producer Scott appeared in John Ford's racially charged Western "The Searchers." I can't say for certain, but perhaps some things she learned making that controversial classic inform the worthy work she's doing now.
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