The Interpreter

It seems like Hollywood suddenly found out that Africa has more than jungles and hidden treasures. After Hotel Rwanda, here comes The Interpreter, a political thriller that still had some faith in the UN. In return, the UN finally allowed the cameras into the UN building in New York, which makes this movie unique.

But again, whenever a Hollywood movie deals with politics, you can smell a hidden agenda behind the scenes. The imaginary African country of Matobo, with its brutal dictator who started as a freedom fighter, would ring a bell with anyone familiar with the recent propaganda campaign against Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. With both black and white citizens, and a flag very similar to that of Zimbabwe, Matobo was just a politically correct alias for Zimbabwe. The bad news, at least for the script writer, is that many movie goers in the US never heard of Zimbabwe. But who knows, maybe CNN, NBC and Fox News will fix this in the near future.