This movie is essentially about a Coke bottle! The whole story starts when a passenger in a private plane flying over Africa, throws a bottle out of the window to the Kalahari desert below. Thinking it is a sign from above, a bushman picks it up and the tale gets funnier from there. Eventually it causes all kinds of problems and the bushman tries to get rid of it.

The film works so well because of its odd confluence of styles, which gradually merge. You could almost say the structure is Hegelian, with a thesis, two antitheses, and something of a synthesis at the end. The common thread throughout is a very tongue-in-cheek critique, in the mode of a parable, of both culture/society/civilization and views about culture/society/civilization, including politics, religion, mores, and so on.

If you liked The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy you will probably like the humor in this film.