ABSTRACT
The Last King of Scotland has the form of a film that uses such a sweetener. The film puts a white character at the center of a story that seems to be about a black character but does this on the way to exposing some of the tragic consequences of white supremacy. The spectator of the film sees Amin over the shoulder of Nicholas Garrigan, a fictional Scottish doctor who manages to become Amin's personal physician and principal advisor. The burden of this form of ethical practice is to insist on asking what kind of person the author becoming, and to take responsibility for the way the process of becoming manifests the cultural meanings that flow through and around each of us. This is the ethical core of the practice of cultural criticism and the author's principal motivation for taking otherwise unsatisfying films seriously.
