This film is a sort of experiment in gullibility. I fell for it.
If you pay close attention, what the narrator actually contradicts himself several times. The presentation is so National Geographic that I could not help but believe everything that the narrator says- even when he's clearly speaking pure nonsense.
As the film progressed, I gradually caught on to the hoax, and I am intrigued by it. There have been a few fine hoaxes in the film world, among them F for Fake and the Blair Witch Project, but I find this one more amusing. It is as though Bunuel wants to see how far he can go.
I have been told that many anthropology departments in many universities kept copies of this film.
If you pay close attention, what the narrator actually contradicts himself several times. The presentation is so National Geographic that I could not help but believe everything that the narrator says- even when he's clearly speaking pure nonsense.
As the film progressed, I gradually caught on to the hoax, and I am intrigued by it. There have been a few fine hoaxes in the film world, among them F for Fake and the Blair Witch Project, but I find this one more amusing. It is as though Bunuel wants to see how far he can go.
I have been told that many anthropology departments in many universities kept copies of this film.