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 girt sent by the Gods. The bottle was clear and fell from the sky; it was something totally new to the tribe and therefore had to be from the Gods. White men from the city where technology is constantly being innovated have no need for bottles when they are empty, but to this sheltered Bushman, this useless bottle was the most unique thing he had ever seen. .
The way this movie was produced portrays a very interesting way of life with the Bushmen of the Sahara Desert. They live in complete simplicity. Nothing besides the essentials of life is of any importance to them. All of the cultural issues that we have today aren't an issue at all today. The way the producer brought the glass bottle into the movie was a way of criticizing the western society and its issues with materialism. .
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.
