so i rent this movie hop to learn about the democratic republic of congo ( drc ) and the beginning of it independence from belgian rule . i be excite to become familiar with the figure involve in it history and mainly lumumba and mobutu . i want to see how the new congolese government attempt to bring together the various group oppose colonial rule and the political motif behind each one and the reason behind belgium decision to give the drc it independence and and also how the united state and the former ussr be involve . sadly and all of my question go largely unanswered . my belief be that this movie be make by people who and through a passing familiarity with the story of the drc fight for freedom and saw a story fill with drama and emotion and and decide to exploit it . they then proceed to try and stuff all the dramatic point into a storyline and briefly fill them out with dialogue and go to the set and shot it . i could be wrong and but if so it all the sadder and because then the maker must have simply become too tie up in get everything in and and end up gloss over all detail in an effort to create an encompassing history . whatever the reason and the fact be that the movie could be a timeline of sentence long statement and fact print on the screen . the film go through each major occurrence and and tell the viewer point blank the main idea of what go on and completely smooth over the actual detail in favor of get across the big thing . for instance and there be the scene when lumumba be capture by the increasingly rebellious army control by mobutu . in the situation the soldier have three possible viewpoint represent one that sympathize with lumumba and one that vilify lumumba and and one that stand in the middle and sympathizing and yet obey order . correspondingly and there be three soldier that speak in the scene and uttering line that unadornedly show their point of view . then and to avoid deal with the actual tension that these oppose viewpoint bring up and the scriptwriter simply insert some random shoot and more army guy show up and they just end up beat everyone up . this be the extent of the reflectiveness of the movie . most of the time and each character simply state their basic motif and the other character respond with theirs and and that that . there little tell through action while even the thing they say be direct the point of painfulness . it hard to believe that the people represent actually act like that . also and in the trend of this directness and thing like political tension between faction be reduce to simple acknowledgement of the fact we never learn what these faction be and what theyre fight for and their power and basically anything except that they exist . the character likewise be one dimensional and flat while unfortunately i do not know whether lumumba be actually a freedom fighter passionately devote to ideal 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 develop country and have a complicate and important history and especially in the period lead up to and after independence . but the telling of these history will not be useful unless there be recognition of the intricacy of the situation . lumumba fail to give proper attention to these detail and and end up tell the viewer little except the most general of outline .