Netflix: Last King of Scotland
I had been wanting to see Last King of Scotland for a while, in fact ever since it was in theaters and I didn't get to see it then. We wanted to see it with some friends and we never got all our schedules together, so we just missed it completely. Then I had to wait for it to come out on DVD, and right when it was about to I bumped it to the top of my Netflix queue and I had it in hand within a day of the DVD release.
I was not disappointed when I watched it. Forest Whitaker won a ton of awards for it, and they were well-deserved. I was kind of surprised that there was very little mention made of the atrocities committed by Idi Amin, instead it was about Amin's insanity - not how he acted out his madness. And it's hard to think that one could ever empathize with a murderous dictator, but Forest Whitaker really makes the character someone you want to see succeed.
We know how it ends, of course - the story of Idi Amin can't end happily. But the movie is nowhere near as much of a downer as I was expecting, and I definitely liked it.
