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The Gods Must be Crazy

The movie " The Gods must be crazy " describes Xi , a bushman and his tribe living in the Kalahari desert in Africa . They're contented because God has provided them with plenty of everything . 1 day , a glass coke bottle is thrown out of an aeroplane upon the tribe. This strange artifact seems to be another boon from the gods—-Xi's people find many uses for it. But unlike anything that they have had before, there is only one bottle to go around. This exposes the tribe to an unknown phenomenon, property , and they soon find themselves experiencing jealousy, anger, hatred, even violence , in a tribe that had never squabbled before . Thats when Xi and his men decide that the gods have to be crazy to send them that ill fated thing and decide to return it to the Gods by throwing it off the edge of the earth . I was astounded to find that the first emotion I felt on watching this small humorous incident , was envy . I was envious of those little bushmen with their simple l...