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Rating: Sigourney Weaver, who is quite a lady, though a bit unsettling, very nervy as a type, with that allure of a strong and somewhat tense woman who has seen things, well, Sigourney leaves the guy and then, who would have thought, she says
“you know what? I’m going to the Congo to study the ch- the chimpanzees, after all, that's my job, I work for National Geographic, nothing to scoff at.
But surprise! In Africa, there isn’t the steppa… there, the… tundra, but no!…damn…the savannah can go to hell!
No savannah! I expected cheetahs, none; I expected lions, none, hey! What did I come here for?
Instead, instead, damn, full of gorillas! Damn, so many!
Full of gorillas but more importantly, gentlemen! Ladies! Madame and monsieur, ladies and gentlemen, I swear to you.
I swear: the mist.
But I can't tell you the satisfaction I felt when I saw the fog, I felt at home! I swear, I felt at home.
After a while, my heart filled with nostalgia, I was about to return, but right then I felt rather at home, you see.
And so, nothing, the cameraman, who would be the camera guy, got pissed, he says to me -but you can't see anything- I get it, figure it out yourself, right? Come on!
He was as angry as a beast.
Plus, I had the locals all over me, all angry too, finding there the crook managing the situation who’s an idiot causing a load of trouble, just leave it be.
In the end, gorillas here, gorillas there, I got attached, add to it the romantic disappointments, and nothing, I started going around the… damn… the… the… the savannah can go to hell… going around the savannah and breaking the poachers’ traps.
But the poacher got pissed too!
And so… in short, there’s the tragic ending, which is a true story so… you see… in short nothing, in the end, it's unclear why they kill me. Because I annoyed the poachers… and nothing, it went that way.
And that's more or less the film. It's not a masterpiece, let’s be clear.”
Then again, there's a whole discussion to be had here—anthropological, philosophical, political, sociological—about whether someone from Kentucky has the right to explain how to live to Africans across the world. But you never know with film, it being a true story, you have to be cautious with judgments, right? You never know, you might find a relative that gives you a hard time, unlikely, but you never know?
But this thing with the gorilla in the mist, damn, cracks me up.
I couldn't sit still.
What can I say? I had to.
For the connected Milanese: forgive the undoubtedly numerous grammatical errors, I’ve always listened to Milanese, never read it.
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