I would like to point out that the Empire of Good Intentions was indeed a very effort. In fact, it does surprise me that Africa seems to have been left out of the analysis for the very proper, nasally-confused Brit narrator. I mean, colonization was such a large part of the 20th century, and India did get its independence a few years before Ghana or other African nations that were under the colonial oppression of the imperialist Brits. The brute colonizers, even in the late-20th or early 21st century still wish to spread their consistent lies of: even though we colonized, rape, pillaged, destroyed these nations, and we recognize the tongue in cheek-ness, the slight sarcasm of the title Empire of Good Intentions (heehee), we still feel it wasn't that bad, honestly, and...we did some good for them, didn't we? The ends must truly justify the means, and by the ends we mean, the way we left it before the hooligan Africans or savage Indians messed up their nations even after all our efforts.
So yeah, lovely movie. Ignorant colonizers (all-encompassing) still believe their own lies.
Eu-ro-cen-tric to the T, or, well, to the E. For Eurocentric.
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