I recently saw The Last King of Scotland. It's an excellent movie, bringing awareness to the horrible regime of Idi Amin, and with great acting bringing life to that evil.
It's also a work of fiction. It's all about this doctor who becomes an insider in the Amin government, witnessing and abetting the evil. This man never existed. Which is ironic, because just about everything else in the movie is true. But it hangs its horrible narrative around a fictional narrator, to make a Story. Because humans understand things through Stories, and we'll remember the facts better if they connect to each other in a Story.
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