The Start

The Last King Of Scotland Starts out with the young Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan moving into the newly administered position as personal physician to his excellency, Amin. Garrigan is excited about his position because previously he has been working in a run down village, helping out the already sick and administering vaccines, the pay is poor and the conditions are awful. Before he really gets a chance to settle in he encounters Idi Amin, the rising military leader who, is in the process of staging a coup to get rid of current President Obote. Amin, has fallen and coincidently Garrigan is first to attend to him. Soon after Garrigan is invited to a state dinner, where we begin to see Amin as a very charasmatic man, but also the potential to be downright crazy. There is one instance where Amin overhears his guests talking about the meat, he shouts out that he has eaten monkey meat and even human meat, to prove his point. "I have also eaten human meat." "It is very salty, even more salty than leopard meat." Although Amin quickly coveres this up with a bit of a joke, we get a tiny glimpse of what this man is actaully capable of. This is Garrigan's first couple days in Uganda, he has been drawn to Amin, and although he has met some fellow Brits, he seems to side closer with Amin, who him self has taken Garrigan under his wing.