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If there is a God...

Godland ( Vanskabte Land,   Volaða land,   Icelandic, Danish; 2022) Written & Directed: Hlynur Pálmason The colonial masters must have thought they were doing the natives a favour by coming to their country and 'civilising' them. The religious people of the colonising race thought bringing religion to their shores would 'save' the natives from the eternal damnation of hellfire as well as earn them a few brownie points in the eyes of God. Actually, the primary aim of the invaders was to get manpower. Europe had awoken from a great slumber. They had improved their weapons and were on a rampage. They had devised a way to mass-produce agricultural produce. For that, they needed manpower, and slavery was found to be a convenient way. After all, the African leaders would bend over backwards to capture their kind and enemies from opposing villages for this trade. When people from the West heard of the abysmal conditions in which slaves lived and worked, a boycott of slave-...