Extreme violence and European imperialism
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat examines the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the prime minister of the newly independent Congo, in 1961
Annoyingly, I somehow missed the scene where a Roman nobleman reads a newspaper in a café. Was he poring over the sports pages? Or the review section? ?Revving up the Shamrock – Alison Healy on the car that never quite got motoringRhyme and reason — Alison Healy on Longfellow’s Wreck of the Hesperus In a previous film about Irish involvement in the Congo crisis of 1960, The Siege of Jadotville , O’Brien was portrayed as a self-preserving pantomime villain. But in this new Belgian documentary, the then UN head of mission in the Congo also gets sympathetic lighting, at least in comparison with those around him, and benefits accordingly.
The violence of Gladiator, despite Hollywood’s best attempts at realism, is the kind designed for eating popcorn to. The violence in Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, despite being heavily edited or detailed only in narration, retains the capacity to shock.
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