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Goodbye Uncle Tom

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Goodbye Uncle Tom	comment	Addio zio Tom (Goodbye Uncle Tom) is a controversial 1971 Italian Mondo Exploitation Film directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi (of Mondo Cane fame).The film involves the aforementioned two travelling back in time to deep southern pre-Civil War America and examining the degrading conditions in which African slaves lived. They go to a dinner party where guests throw scraps of food to half-naked black children huddling under the table; a slave-ship fresh from Africa wherein the slavers talk about their stock as though they were animals; a slave training camp that gives the impression of a production-line; a brothel; a bounty hunter who specializes in hunting down and killing escaping slaves; and a bug-eyed scientist out to write a thesis holding that whites are inherently superior to blacks, among other things; all depicted in horrifyingly graphic, distressing and unbridled detail.Upon the film's extremely limited grindhouse release in America, it caused massive walk-outs and almost started riots. On the directors' cut DVD of the film are some more scenes at the end of it that were cut when it was released; back in the present day, an unidentified angry black man reading William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner and imagining the black uprising described within taking place in the present.Beware, the film is not a pleasant experience. Now don't say you weren't warned...
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Samuel Cartwright both appear and discuss their most famous works—Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) and Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race (1851), respectively—and the setting seems to be the 1850s, but the international slave trade is prominently featured early in the film, despite having been banned in 1807.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: The main conceit of the film. But as Roger Ebert points out in his review, the film fails in this regard by condemning slavery as inhumane and cruel while at the same time practically revelling in scenes of cruelty and inhumanity.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: The film ends over 100 years in the future in the present day (i.e. The '70s), with a black man reading The Confessions of Nat Turner and fantasizing (American Psycho style) about killing white people.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: The bizarre, masked "veterinarian" who appears early in the film gives off definite shades of this. Samuel Cartwright, a real life white supremacist "scientist" who explained anything other than complete submissive servility as the symptoms of disease and invented many torture devices to "cure" them, also makes an appearance.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: As pointed out by Roger Ebert in his review:
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Several German slave owners appear in the film, despite the fact that the vast majority of German immigrants settled in the north and were morally opposed to slavery.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_8ab096bd	type	Dehumanization
Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_8ab096bd	comment	Dehumanization: Many of the whites who appear consider blacks to be a separate and bestial species. One woman even claims that they cannot feel pain.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: A monocled preacher gives a fiercely pro-slavery sermon at one point.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Slave owners do not consider black people human, which apparently justifies treating them worse than animals.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: One man at the slave auction takes far too much pleasure in covering young black boys with gold and silver paint.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: The documentarians run into a well-dressed and apparently educated slave in a cage who gives them a quasi-Marxist speech in support of slavery, enraging them.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Virtually none of the characters receive any form of punishment for their horrendous crimes against humanity.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_af8a9084	comment	Black Is Bigger in Bed: A 13-year-old sex slave cites this as one of the reasons she wants her virginity taken by a white man instead. According to Samuel Cartwright, this is caused by massive amounts of "fornication and sodomy."
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_b0e8d4f7	type	Atrocity Montage
Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_b0e8d4f7	comment	Atrocity Montage: The film depicts the horrors of slavery graphically by using montages of cruelty and depravity inflicted on the slaves, to the point Roger Ebert accused of the film being racist and exploitative by reveling it and breaking the supposed message.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_c3c91506	comment	Depraved Dwarf: The black dwarf at the slave auction who seems to be obsessed with breasts.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: One poster carries the tagline "It was part of the birth of a nation."
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Samuel Cartwright has a number of subjects who purposely injured themselves, which incidentally led to gangrene and amputations.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: One scene has white women denouncing the idea that their husbands would sleep with their slaves and then discussing how curious it is that each generation of slaves seems to get lighter due to "symbiosis."
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