Let’s start with a leaflet. Because in this beautiful film you hear and see a lot of things that you can only understand if you are well versed in the world of dreadlocks and reggae. “Yeah,” for example. Someone is constantly talking or singing about “Jah,” which Rastafarians mean God. And Rastafarians are not just people who live in Jamaica, wear dreadlocks and somehow coolly groove into the day, but followers of a religion. Just like he was, Bob Marley, who you see in the film with a book about Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia, who died in 1975 and who is considered a god-like messiah by Rastafarians.
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