Amazon the splendid and the vile7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Riding home on one of his own buses, Charles couldn’t keep himself from thinking about the boys who robbed him. Then one day some street boys hijacked his car. He was a genuinely rich man in a genuinely poor country. He worked hard and made his way up the corporate pyramid, eventually owning his own bus company and becoming regional distributor for an oil company. Then followed years of living on the street and begging, until he finally found work. One morning when he was six, he woke to discover his family had disappeared overnight – they’d just moved away, leaving him behind. I should have believed what Dixey told me about it.Ĭharles Mulli was born in poverty in a village in Kenya. One of its co-producers, Lukas Behnken, happens to be the son of one of my oldest friends, my college roommate Dixey Behnken. I was late in seeing this film, which I’ve known about since its release in 2017. But that second act is nothing less than astonishing. The story of Charles Mulli, chronicled in the documentary, Mully, would have offered a remarkable story even without its amazing second act. ![]()
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