The film shows, in various forms, the savagery and violence of the white man, within his ideological framework of law and production. The logic of his materialism, is dependent on the cannibalisation of human flesh to underwrite the consistency of his free markets and their guarantor of meaning — the law of property. The White world is geared to the transcendence of life-on-earth by means of the disposability of the Other. References ========= Mutu Tribe -- the last group of Aboriginals to be 'discovered' by white men. Quotes from their recollections of the original encounter. It is Yawali’s recollection of being terrified of the white fellas. Taken from an Independent (British newspaper) article here: bit.ly Beethoven's 9th Symphony Shiller's poem: Ode to Joy -- The anthem of the European Enlightenment, and today's European Union. Le Code Noir: the 1685 rules of slavery imposed by the French Ancien Regime of Louis XIV, on its Caribbean colonies -- particularly Saint Domingue (Haiti). See Black Jacobins by CLR James for the history of the Haitian revolution from a Caribbean-Marxist perspective; widely held to be the definitive (and best written) history of an event that shook the world, and of course, continues to haunt the inheritors of its legacy: Western Modernity (See Cornel West's appraisal.) The archaic preamble to all British Acts of Parliament, mixed with the Code Noir. British Law of Property Act (1925) for the phrases: "Infants and Lunatics" and "Matters ...