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The Last King of Scotland
Drama
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to morally ambiguous historical dramas about seductive power, compromised idealism, and the personal cost of political violence.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, darkly comic
- Payoff
- catharsis, revelation
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- dictatorship, political naivety, charisma, complicity, mass violence
- Setting
- 1970s, vibrant urban capital and authoritarian presidential court
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