Q3 Blog #12

This outside reading was supposed to be about imperialism or colonization. So I decided to write about the movie Zulu. Zulu is about the British trying to colonize Africa. The mighty Zulu tribe stands up to them and tries to fend them off. The main story focuses on a small British fort that undergoes multiple Zulu attacks. You watch as hundreds of Zulus are cut down by the British breach loading rifles. Several Zulu attacks are broken by the defenders. It was a good movie, but I didn't like how the British were the heroes. Instead of showing the Zulu as people defending their homeland they were shown as savages that must be rid of. The British are the real villains but instead they are shown as heroes. The film gathers sympathy for the British by showing brutal killings of the main character's friends, and directs hate towards the Zulu by way of the same tool. I think it would have been better to show the struggle of the Zulu in fighting off the British from their homeland.