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...they do want is more self-government. For the British, though, the territory is a familiar case of a small, impoverished colony longing to rule itself, yet unable to make ends meet. It has little to live on but cut-over mahogany forests, a few rice fields, and sugar cane and grapefruit plantations. In the tin-roofed capital of Belize, there are still no underground sewers or running water. British handouts take care of chronic trade deficits and keep the economy from collapse. But a fortnight ago, Britain was ready to grant British Honduras what so many other colonies have...
...Mondo Cane has one big flaw: the script, written by Jacopetti. The real impact of this film is visual; its point is adequately made by the sequences themselves and the way they are cut. Any narration beyond a minimal identification of what is on the screen is superfluous, and Jacopetti's is not only superfluous but also annoyingly stupid, full of bad puns, idiotic prejudices, clumsy writing, and leaden sarcasm...
...Mondo Cane is probably one of the most fascinating films ever made. It is a collection of thirty-four separate color sequences, welded into a unified whole by the sense of irony and the pessimistic philosophy of its producer and creator, Gualtiero Jacopetti...
...spite of the script, Mondo Cane is a gripping and sometimes extremely moving film. The most powerful scene was filmed on an island near Bikini, showing how animals and birds have been violently affected by the radiation from H-bomb tests. Fish have come out of the water to live in trees, and birds have tunneled underground, never to fly again. Other birds have been trying for years to hatch eggs killed by the bomb, and sea turtles whose sense of direction has been destroyed by radiation crawl inland and die after laying their eggs. After a panorama shot...
...Mondo Cane is good because the films it is made up of are good. They come from all over the world and have subject matter of enormous variety: Nepalese Gurkhas slicing the heads off bulls, a "house of death" in Singapore, a pet cemetary in Pasedena, a French painter who uses paint-covered nude girls as brushes, a Malayan tribe which gets revenge on man-eating sharks by stuffing poisonous sea-urchins down their throats, and so on. The movie veers wildly between the funny and the horrifying. It should not be missed...