Title: A fair and honest documentary.
Review: The film MONDO MAGIC is said to be an "exploitation" documentary or "shock" journalism. I don't see why. The Italian reporters who went to Africa and South America didn't stage what they filmed. They just recorded and reported what these primitive peoples do. If anything, the narrator goes out of his way to explain and to justify many of the rudest scenes as being adaptive behavior, reasonable given the circumstances and capabilities of the people involved.MONDO MAGIC is no more exploitative than journalism usually is. And any shockingness is the result of what those people actually, customarily do. If what they do is disgusting, that isn't the fault of the journalists who chose to record it and present it to us. The dishonesty would be in omitting it, concealing it, and spinning a false yarn about what a glorious life is lived by "the noble savage." We have had many falsehoods of that kind shown us. This film, on the other hand, gives us a peek at the truth.
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