My honey, and I got the opportunity to check out, The Last King of Scotland, starring Forrest Whitaker. Whitaker stepped into the role of the late Ugandan dictatorial ruler, Idi Amin. The movie was rivetting, and powerful. As I previously mentioned on another forum, if F.W. is not the nominee & winner of an Oscar....Something fishy is going on
Anyone else around here viewed it yet? If so, I'm interested in hearing your synopsis.

We haven't seen it yet, but plan to this coming weekend. It looks like a good one for real!!

I just saw it. It was fabulous and FW deserves the Oscar!

Heck Yeah! This is F.W.'s best performances yet! He was a featured guest on Oprah last month, and during the interview he stated that he spent several months on location, immersed in the culture just to study the linguistics, and develop his accent.
In my opinion, the true hero was the Ugandan doctor that willing gave up his life so that the rest of the world could hear the 'real' story. (All for the sake of liberation of his fellow kinsmen, and the future generations to come. )
I tell ya the end scenes had my heart racing as I sat on the edge of my seat in suspense!
Anyone contemplating going to see this movie will not be disappointed... A few dollars well spent

I thought the film was outstanding!

I have not seen it yet; but I just read a review and it says that Forrest is outstanding in the role. I am looking forward to seeing it now.

The movie is really good, but the book is ALOT better. The ending in the movie is about the half-way point of the book. So if you get a chance, go and pick it up..... its a page turner. Dont read it at night as it might keep you up not wanting to stop. The hardest part is to seperate what is fact and what is fiction. Some of the characters are real, some are not, but the author blends them together into a great story with enough non-fiction to keep you guessing as to what is fiction and vise-versa.

But I agree 100%, Forrest Witaker did an excellent job! My wife said he nailed the Ugandan accent and his Kiswahili was pretty good also. It was all shot on location so she loved that as it was like taking a drive down some of the streets of Kampala in some of the scenes. Even the hotel she used to work at was one of the locations they shot the film at.

The two doctors (one white - Nicholas Garrigan, one Ugandan - unknown name) are fictional characters. They are not real people.

O.K. this is confirmation... (You are the third person to mention that the book is captivating, and better than the movie.) Thanks for the heads up, because I am notorious for getting engrossed in a well written piece(It's just so hard to tear yourself away when you have a curious mind . "Just one more page... I gotta see what's going to happen next.... Just one more page." You know how it is when you start reading in the bed at 11PM, then you look at the clock to discover it is 3AM, and you got to rise and shine by 6AM.
I agree, deciphering the factual scenes from the fiction is a bit difficult. One particular scene that stands out in my mind is when the younger son of one of Amin's wives stood by helplessly viewing his mother lying dismembered on the table in the hospital room. I researched this, and some say Amin personally hacked & butchered her in the presence of her son to make an example, while others state that he ordered the killing. In any case I thought it bizarre that the limbs were reattached backward... However, in an effort to follow proper burial laws/customs, it was necessary to reattach the limbs. (Ugh, talk about gruesome & grizzly )
I even came across an article which stated that after capturing military leaders, and decaptiating them. He kept his trophies (human heads) in the State house freezer. Then at a later time he would request the main dining table to be set, (in which all the heads would be placed at the table). Suppossedly he would ingest a bit of the flesh from each, laugh and talk to them.. Fiction or non-fiction
However, It's good to hear that your wife, whom is a native to the land gives F.W. the big . Now, if she said that his accent & Kiswahili was impeccable... That's one good indication that he really played his role well! I know it brought a smile to her face, (and to her heart) to view the familiar places!
Alright, leave this place...Destination Amazon! Gotta get the book nowwww!