so i rented this movie hoping to learn about the democratic republic of congo (drc) and the beginnings of its independence from belgian rule. i was excited to become familiar with the figures involved in its history and mainly lumumba and mobutu. i wanted to see how the new congolese government attempted to bring together the various groups opposing colonial rule and the political motives behind each one and the reasons behind belgium decision to give the drc its independence and and also how the united states and the former ussr were involved. sadly and all of my questions went largely unanswered. my belief is that this movie was made by people who and through a passing familiarity with the story of the drc fight for freedom and saw a story filled with drama and emotion and and decided to exploit it. they then proceeded to try and stuff all the dramatic points into a storyline and briefly filled them out with dialogue and went to the set and shot it. i could be wrong and but if so it all the sadder and because then the makers must have simply become too tied up in getting everything in and and ended up glossing over all details in an effort to create an encompassing history. whatever the reason and the fact is that the movie could be a timeline of sentence long statements and facts printed on the screen. the film goes through each major occurrence and and tells the viewer point blank the main idea of what going on and completely smoothing over the actual details in favor of getting across the big things. for instance and there is the scene when lumumba is captured by the increasingly rebellious army controlled by mobutu. in the situation the soldiers have three possible viewpoints represent one that sympathizes with lumumba and one that vilifies lumumba and and one that stands in the middle and sympathizing and yet obeying orders. correspondingly and there are three soldiers that speak in the scene and uttering lines that unadornedly show their points of view. then and to avoid dealing with the actual tensions that these opposing viewpoints bring up and the scriptwriters simply inserted some random shooting and more army guys show up and they just end up beating everyone up. this is the extent of the reflectiveness of the movie. most of the time and each character simply states their basic motives and the other characters respond with theirs and and that that. there little telling through actions while even the things they say are direct the point of painfulness. it hard to believe that the people represented actually acted like that. also and in the trend of this directness and things like political tension between factions is reduced to simple acknowledgement of the fact  we never learn what these factions are and what theyre fighting for and their power and basically anything except that they exist. the characters likewise are one dimensional and flat while unfortunately i do not know whether lumumba was actually a freedom fighter passionately devoted to ideals of congolese unity and but after an hour or so of the movie i certainly do not trust it to tell me so. the drc and like many developing countries and has a complicated and important history and especially in the period leading up to and after independence. but the telling of these histories will not be useful unless there is recognition of the intricacy of the situations. lumumba fails to give proper attention to these details and and ends up telling the viewer little except the most general of outlines. 
so i rented this movie hoping to learn about the democratic republic of congo (drc) and the beginnings of its independence from belgian rule. i was excited to become familiar with the figures involved in its history and mainly lumumba and mobutu. i wanted to see how the new congolese government attempted to bring together the various groups opposing colonial rule and the political motives behind each one and the reasons behind belgium decision to give the drc its independence and and also how the united states and the former ussr were involved. sadly and all of my questions went largely unanswered. my belief is that this movie was made by people who and through a passing familiarity with the story of the drc fight for freedom and saw a story filled with drama and emotion and and decided to exploit it. they then proceeded to try and stuff all the dramatic points into a storyline and briefly filled them out with dialogue and went to the set and shot it. i could be wrong and but if so it all the sadder and because then the makers must have simply become too tied up in getting everything in and and ended up glossing over all details in an effort to create an encompassing history. whatever the reason and the fact is that the movie could be a timeline of sentence long statements and facts printed on the screen. the film goes through each major occurrence and and tells the viewer point blank the main idea of what going on and completely smoothing over the actual details in favor of getting across the big things. for instance and there is the scene when lumumba is captured by the increasingly rebellious army controlled by mobutu. in the situation the soldiers have three possible viewpoints represent one that sympathizes with lumumba and one that vilifies lumumba and and one that stands in the middle and sympathizing and yet obeying orders. correspondingly and there are three soldiers that speak in the scene and uttering lines that unadornedly show their points of view. then and to avoid dealing with the actual tensions that these opposing viewpoints bring up and the scriptwriters simply inserted some random shooting and more army guys show up and they just end up beating everyone up. this is the extent of the reflectiveness of the movie. most of the time and each character simply states their basic motives and the other characters respond with theirs and and that that. there little telling through actions while even the things they say are direct the point of painfulness. it hard to believe that the people represented actually acted like that. also and in the trend of this directness and things like political tension between factions is reduced to simple acknowledgement of the fact  we never learn what these factions are and what theyre fighting for and their power and basically anything except that they exist. the characters likewise are one dimensional and flat while unfortunately i do not know whether lumumba was actually a freedom fighter passionately devoted to ideals of congolese unity and but after an hour or so of the movie i certainly do not trust it to tell me so. the drc and like many developing countries and has a complicated and important history and especially in the period leading up to and after independence. but the telling of these histories will not be useful unless there is recognition of the intricacy of the situations. lumumba fails to give proper attention to these details and and ends up telling the viewer little except the most general of outlines. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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