Idi Amin, the third president of Uganda, ruled through fear and spectacle in equal measure. The film lays out both sides of that record: the persecution of minority groups, the torture, and a self-granted title running to "Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular," a title long enough to be its own kind of evidence. Set against the man called the Butcher of Uganda is another Amin, six foot four, a former swimming champion, a musician, and by several accounts a devoted father who charmed Ugandans and Western visitors alike before the violence caught up with the image. The film does not resolve the contradiction so much as hold both portraits up together, the populist and the persecutor, and let the gap between them stand as the real subject. It is a short sketch of a leader whose public performance and private brutality rarely matched.