The Last King Of Scotland

The movie I watched was The Last King of Scotland. This movie is about a man named Garrigan from Scotland who graduated from medical school in Scotland, so he planned to make a trip out of the country to get away and try to do something useful wherever he could go. His choice of the country was by a spin of the globe and the spot his finger landed. The first spin was Canada, but for a reason I do not know he didn't like that choice, so he spun again and landed on Uganda. Because he had just graduated medical school he arranged to stay with some local doctors and help with the medical problems in a small tribe. He had been working for a few days when he got a call about a problem with the newly elected king Idi Amin. He had hurt his hand in a car accident and he wrapped it and spoke with the king while he helped him. He is selected to become his personal physician. Amin builds trust for him and relies on more than medical matters, such as matters of state. He becomes engulfed in his lifestyle and eventually becomes lovers with the king's wife Kay. Amin begins to lose faith in Garrigan and he learns of the president's mental stability issues. Garrigan gets Kay pregnant and tries to seek and abortion. He decides to do the operation himself, but when they do not meet on time she seeks a local abortion in a nearby village. When he finds her, he sees her mutilated corspe and breaks down. Then Garrigan palns to kill Amin through his positon as a personal physician. Amin hears of a highjacked plan that has been brought down and he goes to the scene with Garriggan. There the guards learn of his paln to kill Amin and take him into the back room where Amin orders him to be hung by the skin. After he is left there to die by the guards, his colleauge saves him, cleans him up, and tries to gt him on the flight out with the people from the highjacked plane. He escapes and te end shows the real president and the fact that over 300,000 citizens were killed under his rule.
The elements that I noticed were touched by this film were the spread of demograpics in a country. The difference between the porrest village and the inner city area is huge. The lifestyles are completely based on hugely different situations. Also, I noticed a true dictator that had seriously affected many lives without national attention as much today as you may hear of Hitler or Osama.
I was not educated about these events as much until I could understand what this ruler really was like and what some of the actions he did were. This piece of histroy was very new to me and it was interesting to learn about it.
This movie was eduacational and based on true events with pieces of fiction. It was in some parts sexual and grusome but overall was interesting and suspensful. I could reccomend it to anyone of our age or older.