When a culture is so simple, such as the one from The Gods Must Be Crazy, it’s very easy for any type of object to cause havoc. The Bushmen is the Sahara Desert live with only the necessities of live. They only possessions they have are from nature, so seeing some strange man-made object can easily cause commotion. In the case of The Gods Must Be Crazy, an object as simple as an empty glass bottle stirred up the entire Bushman village. At first the bottle was good to have around, it helped with many daily chores. Unfortunately, after a short time the Bushmen began to feel new emotions like jealousy and anger. An object as simple as a glass bottle brought negative feelings to the usually peaceful Bushmen because of it was so different then anything else they had ever seen.
The glass bottle that was thrown from the airplane by the white man was an everyday object. However, to the Bushmen it was a gi
This movie did a very good job depicting the way such a small object can have such a big impact on another culture. Even though the bottle was meaningless garbage to the white man in the plane, it was the most important thing the Bushman had ever seen. The movie also does a very good job comically criticizing the problem western cultures have with materialism. The movie was made so it was funny, but the point also got across.
The entire tribe was portrayed as very happy and everybody shared their few possessions before the bottle fell from the sky. Soon after the bottle was in the community people were fighting and had gotten very greedy. The bottle criticizes the western world because it shows how materialism is such a problem. People in the cities are too concerned with what possessions they have to be happy. This movie shows how content people can be even if they don’t own anything valuable,
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