His Big White Self

Informative, well-made, and intriguing documentary about the banality of evil

There is a lot of historical documentation in this film that pads out the footage of the protagonists, it reminds you of the seriousness of these people who seem often seem comical when they are on camera. People who have beaten, bombed, and possibly murdered innocent people. The footage of the AWB storming a building where a conference was being held by the ANC, the white police standing by and doing nothing was particularly poignant. As for the man himself, "He then read out great swathes of h