"CANNIBAL TOURS"

"There is nothing so strange in a strange land, as the stranger who comes to visit it."

- Todd Gitlin, author of The Whole World is Watching, The Sixties, Inside Prime Time and The Twilight of Common Dreams

"A dryly funny, perceptive, and terribly disturbing documentary masterwork."

- John Hinde, ABC Radio (Sydney)

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"CANNIBAL TOURS" is two journeys. The first is that depicted - rich and bourgeois tourists on a luxury-cruise up the mysterious Sepik River, in the jungles of Papua New Guinea ... the packaged version of a 'heart of darkness'. The second journey (the real text of the film) is a metaphysical one. It is an attempt to discover the place of 'the Other' in the popular imagination. It affords a glimpse at the real (mostly unconsidered or misunderstood) reasons why 'civilised' people wish to encounter the 'primitive'. The situation is that shifting terminus of civilisation, where modern mass-culture grates and pushes against those original, essential aspects of humanity; and where much of what passes for values in western culture is exposed in stark relief as banal and fake.

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Directed by Dennis O'Rourke

There is nothing so strange in a strange land, as the stranger who comes to visit it.

The film follows a number of European and American ecotourists as they travel from village to village throughout the Sepik River area in Papua New Guinea, driving hard bargains for local handcrafted items, paying to view formerly sacred ceremonies and taking photographs of every aspect of "primitive" life. With some prodding, the tourists unwittingly reveal an unattractive and pervasive ethnocentrism to O'Rourke's cameras. The tourists thus become somewhat dehumanized by the camera, even as the tourists themselves are busy exoticizing even the most mundane aspects of Sepik River life.

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Dennis O'Rourke

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Tim Litchfield

Channel 4 Television Institute of Papua New Guinea Studios

Australia Papua New Guinea

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Spoken languages.

German Hiri Motu English

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George

Review by George

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BrandonHabes

Review by BrandonHabes ★★★★★ 3

Within tourism, the primitive "other" occupies a magical position for neocolonial sightseers. The more exotic and detached the landscape is, the greater those wondering resources will be for the inexperienced globetrotter. It will be as two alien worlds colliding respectively on both ends, each with their own ethnocentric assumptions about the other. Some will seek to demystify the touristic attraction by making authentic contact, others will unknowingly exploit the experience by treating it as a Disneyland exhibition.

The opening epigraph of Dennis O’Rourke’s Cannibal Tours (1988) underscores the cross-cultural relations between European tourists and Papua New Guinean natives in a way that provides biting commentary on consumption, colonialism, modernization, ethnocentric stereotypes, and globalization of culture.

It reads: “There is nothing…

Graham

Review by Graham ★★★½

March Around the World 2024 #31 🇵🇬

There is nothing so strange in a strange land as the stranger who comes to visit it.

Award-winning Aussie Larrakin director Dennis O'Rourke spent time living in Papua New Guinea, and his film captures this ancient place as groups of ecotourists come to see the sights, the arts and local primitive locations. They just chew it up.

Watching these wealthy whities barter with the locals, most of whom are living day to day over a few Kina (the local currency), is really very sad. Ignoring inflation for a sec, the saving enjoyed by one woman was equivalent to $2 USD for a locally made piece of art that they'll likely flaunt to their…

Grégoire Canvel

Review by Grégoire Canvel ★★★★½

Horrifically uncomfortable, gorgeously observed. The kind of doc you dream of making but can't imagine shooting. So believable, no less jaw-dropping to watch. People are disgusting :/

Evan B

Review by Evan B ★★★★

“ We sit here confused while they take pictures of everything.. we don’t understand why these foreigners take photographs.”

a cringe-inducing study of white tourism in Papau New Guinea that captures the casually racist, paternalistic, dehumanizing attitudes among rich westerners who parade into a place that doesn’t belong to them and proceed to act as if it does. as they snap pictures of everything with fascination and pose with the native residents like exotic props, it’s impossible to ignore the profound disrespect and sense of arrogant superiority. 

“We have the good fortune of being born into a more evolved society...We must help them try to advance in the world.”

one thing that struck me in particular was the sheer AUDACITY of…

Eli Staub

Review by Eli Staub ★★★½

Wow! This is on Letterboxd! Yeah, the double meaning of the title is so fascinating. White tourists come to the tribes in hopes of seeing cannibals in a selfish voyeuristic way, while they are the real cannibals, eating away at the culture and life of the tribes.

Kyle Khang

Review by Kyle Khang ★★★★

Loses 1/2 a star for being a bit too long and another 1/2 star for some really weird booty shots of the tourist women

vi

Review by vi ★★★★ 1

the scene where the 2 boys were singing a song about Jesus was inexplicably heartbreaking

Reto Hochstrasser

Review by Reto Hochstrasser ★★★★

"If we play the drums, they give us a little money."

Impressive biting stuff, quite unmasking for both sides, although of course the racist and eurocentric tourists turn out to be much nastier and uglier. The locals simply fight for everyday survival and therefore do a lot with the travelers - but they are aware of their unfortunate situation on all levels and can also name it impressively. Also loved the ironic use of Mozart's music.

Joshua Bushman

Review by Joshua Bushman ★★★½

Everyone should see this at least once in their lifetime. I love how painfully aware the natives are of everything going on. Like that one carpenter saying the white tourists are only rich because their daddy’s were rich

The ending is just an actual fucking horror movie and could radicalize just about anyone

Doug Dillaman

Review by Doug Dillaman ★★★★

This G-rated film has no cannibalism in it, or any other gore, but this documentation of Americans and Europeans blissfully bumbling their way through Papau New Guinea in its own way as deeply savage as similarly-named counterparts. On one side you have tourists who want an "authentic experience", seemingly blissfully unaware of how their observed subject has already been changed not just by observation but by colonialism. On the other side, you have indigenous peoples who are fully entrenched in the mechanisms of capitalism, demanding the respect a participant in the economy deserves, while faintly mystified at what reason their offerings are even valued. A bit stately by present standards but by no means dated in a tourism world where the authentic is privileged but can never be attained. Viewable in full on YouTube .

C-nyborg (☉_ ☉)

Review by C-nyborg (☉_ ☉)

I guess the true cannibal is capitalism and western society

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Cannibal Tours is a 1988 documentary film by Australian director and cinematographer Dennis O'Rourke. While it borrows heavily from ethnographic modes of representation, the film is a biting commentary on the nature of modernity. The film documents a cruise ship tour down the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea as wealthy European and American tourists go in search of “primitive” cultures. The film captures cross-cultural miscommunication as tourists and hosts misunderstand one another, usually comically, often disturbingly.

The film follows a number of European and American ecotourists as they travel from village to village throughout the Sepik River area in Papua New Guinea, driving hard bargains for local handcrafted items, paying to view formerly sacred ceremonies and taking photographs of every aspect of "primitive" life. With some prodding, the tourists unwittingly reveal an unattractive and pervasive ethnocentrism to O'Rourke's cameras. The tourists thus become somewhat dehumanized by the camera, even as the tourists themselves are busy exoticizing even the most mundane aspects of Sepik River life.

"Dennis O'Rourke's Cannibal Tours is simply (to be more precise, complexly) stunning. While the cameras snap, the tourists bargain, and Sonny and Cher sing 'I Got You Babe' over Radio Moscow, the Papua New Guineans try to hold onto their world. 'We sit here confused,' one laments, 'while they take pictures of everything' - while O'Rourke's camera shoots the whole of a social relation that is taking over the world, the relation between the seeing and the seen. This double anthropology subtly shows how connoisseurship and condescension are linked, and how little the Western tribe of tourists understand their own culture. Cannibal Tours succeeds in being both devastating and charming - an amazing combination." - Todd Gitlin, author of The Whole World is Watching, The Sixties, Inside Prime Time and The Twilight of Common Dreams

"A dryly funny, perceptive, and terribly disturbing documentary masterwork." - John Hinde, ABC Radio (Sydney)

"Cannibal Tours is two journeys. The first is that depicted - rich and bourgeois tourists on a luxury-cruise up the mysterious Sepik River, in the jungles of Papua New Guinea ... the packaged version of a 'heart of darkness'. The second journey (the real text of the film) is a metaphysical one. It is an attempt to discover the place of 'the Other' in the popular imagination. It affords a glimpse at the real (mostly unconsidered or misunderstood) reasons why 'civilised' people wish to encounter the 'primitive'. The situation is that shifting terminus of civilisation, where modern mass-culture grates and pushes against those original, essential aspects of humanity; and where much of what passes for values in western culture is exposed in stark relief as banal and fake." - Dennis O'Rourke, director of Cannibal Tours.

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It affords a glimpse at the real (mostly unconsidered or misunderstood) reasons why 'civilised' people wish to encounter the 'primitive'.

"Cannibal Tours" is two journeys. The first is that depicted - rich and bourgeois tourists on a luxury-cruise up the mysterious Sepik River, in the jungles of Papua New Guinea ... the packaged version of a 'heart of darkness'. The second journey (the real text of the film) is a metaphysical one. It is an attempt to discover the place of 'the Other' in the popular imagination. It affords a glimpse at the real (mostly unconsidered or misunderstood) reasons why 'civilised' people wish to encounter the 'primitive'. The situation is that shifting terminus of civilisation, where modern mass-culture grates and pushes against those original, essential aspects of humanity; and where much of what passes for values in western culture is exposed in stark relief as banal and fake.

Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.

Cannibal Tours

CANNIBAL TOURS

When tourists journey to the furthermost reaches of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea, is it the indigenous tribespeople or the white visitors who are the cultural oddity?

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Self and other, cannibal tours.

Dennis O’Rourke’s Papua New Guinea documentary is calm, controlled, courteous, doubly devastating. Some commentary on the film differs, but I think that he likes some of these tourists, and many, even most of them deserve to be liked. And just because you’re a native doesn’t mean you can’t be self-serving or plain unpleasant.

Having established this, what’s left is utter devastation, and an utter quandary. Cannibalism was no good, but Contact was still a disaster. “That’s close enough,” says the nice European woman who wanted a souvenir photograph, but not so much as to get any on her. The “second price” sequence, especially with the way these scroungers talk so smugly over the top of the people their bilking, encapsulates the whole colonial abomination with incredible, terrible efficiency.

  • Cluster: Self and Other
  • Country: Australia
  • Year Released: 1988
  • Directed by: Dennis O'Rourke
  • Film Review by: Dean Duncan

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Quote:Cannibal Tours is a 1988 documentary film by Australian director and cinematographer Dennis O’Rourke. While it borrows heavily from ethnographic modes of representation, the film is a biting commentary on the nature of modernity. The film follows a number of European and American ecotourists as they travel from village to village throughout the Sepik River area in Papua New Guinea, driving hard bargains for local handcrafted items, paying to view formerly sacred ceremonies and taking photographs of every aspect of “primitive” life. With some prodding, the tourists unwittingly reveal an unattractive and pervasive ethnocentrism to O’Rourke’s cameras. The tourists thus become somewhat dehumanized by the camera, even as the tourists themselves are busy exoticizing even the most mundane aspects of Sepik River life. The title of the film can be read in at least a couple of ways. At one point early in the film, a German tourist, clearly titillated, describes the bygone practice of raiding and cannibalism. Cannibalism, the viewer also learns, was highly symbolic and often involved taking and wearing the skins of the victims.

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Among the many absurd images in ''Cannibal Tours,'' the most ridiculous is that of a European face elaborately painted in the ritual makeup of a Papua New Guinea tribe. The stark white face filled with swirling brown lines emerges from behind a Nikon camera, photographing similarly decorated Europeans and Americans dancing on a luxury cruise ship. They are touring an island where cannibalism has been replaced by commerce. As the director, Dennis O'Rourke, has described his documentary, these ''bourgeois tourists'' have bought ''the packaged version of 'Heart of Darkness.' ''

That description only hints at Mr. O'Rourke's gentle, witty and ultimately disturbing vision. In ''Cannibal Tours,'' which opens today for a weeklong run at Film Forum 1, he guides his audience not toward Conrad's horror, but toward a more mournful recognition. He discovers the odd congruities, as well as the predictable incongruities, between the villagers and the tourists, who treat the Papua New Guineans as if their daily lives were a Disneyland exhibition.

An Australian film maker who has spent years documenting the changing lives of Pacific islanders, Mr. O'Rourke lets his camera uncover meanings without narrative intrusions (except for the occasional off-camera interviewer's voice). Yet like all documentaries, his assumes a point of view.

Over a calm blue sea, with beautiful green hills in the background, we hear Mozart. Before long, the music is interrupted by a crackling radio news report detailing Henry A. Kissinger's views on arms control. The best and the worst of Western civilization intrudes on this glorious landscape.

The tourists' gawky voyeurism is embodied in a variety of ugly Americans, Germans and Italians. The typical German is a corpulent man in a silly-looking safari suit and hat. The Italians wear stylish jeans and talk about educating the natives. The Americans are uniformly coarse, tittering over their souvenir phallic objects. Mr. O'Rourke does not condescend to these condescending types, whose unsavory presence is predictable.

The film's surprising twist is its undercurrent of mutual exploitation. Like any good capitalists, the villagers sell things the tourists want to buy - wood carvings or the opportunity to photograph their ''spirit house,'' a place that once contained sacred objects long since removed by missionaries.

Though the foreigners undoubtedly introduced crass commercialism along with their religion, today's modern villagers accept the necessity of selling out. They simply want to do better at it. In an open-air market, villagers put price stickers on carved masks; a European woman holds up a straw object and wonders, ''Is this a skirt or a bag?''; and one Papua New Guinean woman complains vehemently that the tourists look but don't buy. How is she supposed to send her children to school? A middle-aged village man says, ''If they paid me more I could go on that ship with the tourists.''

But while he understands the commercial trade-off perfectly, other European customs baffle him. ''We don't understand why these foreigners take photographs,'' he says, when postcards of the spirit house are sold in the nearby town. His own son, in an act of ultimate absurdity, sent his father such a postcard.

Like his fellow tribesmen, this man sits bare-chested outside a hut and looks totally unaffected by Western influences. But his dialect is loaded with English words. ''Money,'' and the markdown terms ''No. 2 price'' and ''No. 3 price'' leap out from his speech.

An older man recalls that when the first German colonists arrived, his tribe said, ''Our dead ancestors have returned.'' They still say ''The dead have returned'' when they see the ghostly-white foreigners, he explains, but now they don't believe it. Today, the Papua New Guineans seem both wiser and more vulnerable than the tourists; they have been corrupted, yet are no longer innocent victims.

Beneath its always entertaining surface, ''Cannibal Tours'' raises provocative cultural questions in only 70 minutes and demonstrates what supurb documentary making is about. THE CONRAD PACKAGE TOUR - CANNIBAL TOURS, produced, directed and photographed by Dennis O'Rourke; in numerous languages with English subtitles; released by Direct Cinema Ltd. At Film Forum 1, 57 Watts Street. Running time: 70 minutes. This film has no rating.

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I wanted to see a mouthy tourist get eaten.

Reminds me of this http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/keep-the-river/

The director went on a tourist cruise in Papua New Guinea, pretending to make a documentary about the natives but actually filming the tourists. It is about tourists being condescending and horrible. I watched it after seeing the bizarre “cultural voyeurism” reality show, Meet the Natives. I thought it was a good counterpoint.

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West civilization, neocolonialism, race and gender, social organization, indigenous political systems, works cited.

The movie Cannibal Tours gives a visual ethnography of tourism in Melanesia. The tourist who plays a key role in the movie have travelled from different parts of the world to the Sepik Valley to experience the unique “ Primitive People ” whom they claim live in a state of nature and practices cannibalism (O’Rourke). The Movie presents tourists in an untested as neocolonial subjects. They offer stories about the simple people existing harmoniously with nature and who establishes viable social systems unmediated by modernism.

The movie seeks out the locals and stresses them to share about cannibalism, they do this even taking them to places where people have been sacrificed and consumed. The tourist in the movie desires for and obsessively gathers the relics and other palpable symbols of variance. With their extensive cameras, they determinedly try to seizure the locals and their strange world. The scenes combined with the reflections of the natives on tourists and their interfaces with them emphasize the importance of consumption, ethno-centrality and socio-political opportunity to cross-cultural tourist locations (O’Rourke).

Consequently, the Cannibal Tours also focuses on incorporation, consumption and appropriation. It implicitly argues that, the cannibals as asserted by the title are not the locals but the tourists. Transforming familiarities and personalities shaped out of the imageries and alteration of the Melanesians tourist develops cannibals, their dehumanizing practices mythical utilize the locals and their lives (O’Rourke).

According to Beatle, the tourists experience their myth as hysteria and signs, whereas, the New Guineans perceive it as an enduring experience of their culture (56). This can be illustrated in the book when an old man gives a story about the reactions of New Guineans to the arrival of the first ship carrying the Germans colonialists he says “ our dead descendants have come back!”, he also continues with a huge smile and says “.. when we watch the tourists…. We conclude the dead have resurrected”. The old man asserts that what they say. Although, in the real sense, they believe that they are not there dead ancestors (O’Rourke).

The Cannibal Tours focuses on two different cultures. The culture consists of a group of wealthy tourists who are able to meet affluent and elegant trip along River Sepik of New Guinea aboard a deluxe cruise ship, known as The Melanesian Explorer. This situation illustrates the power and social delineation present between the tourist, super culture and the natives or the primitive, who cannot afford the luxurious holidays because of economic condition. The movie critic the political nature of tourism, it brings out the ineffable and the conceptual aspects of tourism.

Political aspects of tourism are characterized with when the tourist returns, they carry along their experiences anchored on the photographs and artifacts they carry along. Consequently, on their mind, they have a sense of anomie i.e. no one can be linked in the sense that, people who survived in a pantheistic civilization are. Besides, we have seen the failure of Christianity, the holocaust. This can be argued that modernity and western civilization have had little effect in peoples mind. This is because they don’t understand what it means. The culture recognizes the ordinary people who don’t even think about it for living. This is illustrated by the River Sepik villages where the tourists visit. The movie depict the ecstatic moment when Iatmul village men paints tourists with designs conventionally used to sanctify the dead ancestors, moreover, tourist are seen dancing to slow music of Mozart while aboard a cruise ship (O’Rourke).

Culture has been closely linked with race and gender. Primitivism makes the community escape the state of sexual oppression in their own culture; this is the essence of primitivism. Consequently, the connection between the western fascinations with the primitive is how sex employed as a tool in handling fears arising from others i.e. the dread of conflict constituting psychosis. Hence, the society responds by either getting attracted by strategies in containing its misuse.

As illustrated in the Movie, child pornography is mildly explored. Sex connection establishes a test of how it can be confronted and subsumes the gap existing within the society, ourselves, sexuality and our connection with the next generation. Child pornography, which is a beast of all, makes the dark side of the society and “who we are”. The Cannibal Tour exposes compassionate exploration of child pornography.

Culture has endured to establish what Lewellen calls “basic Social organization” and “the evolution of political society (10). These descriptions stress on the physiognomies of distinct stages of sociocultural integration instead of the dynamics that trigger evolution from one level to the next. This form of assertions is drawn largely from archeology theories, rather than the cultural anthropology (Lewellen, 11). According to great archeologists, many efforts are involved in understanding the evolution occurring in state societies. Thus, the archeological and cultural aspects are linked to create “the origins of the State and Civilization” (Lewellen, 11).

Various archeologists such as Max Gluckman investigated the analysis of “situations”. These involved individuals rather than the traditional ethnographic concentration of given set norms and social norms. Consequently, Victor Turner in his book, Schism and Continuity in African Society traced a single individual through a chronology of social dramas in which individual and community influences of norms and morals were uncovered. Basing on their emphasis on the trend and conflict, a new form of political element was added; thus, individual decision making is evident in crisis situations (Lewellen, 11).

According to Beatle, indigenous people globally shares a particular political context, whatever their cultural specific (63). They endeavor to compete against the legacy of disenfranchisement of their; ancestral lands, culture and society by colonizing European societies. Thus, Beatle denotes that, this point to the struggle against colonialism i.e. the acquisition, management and exploitation of a country’s resources by European powers. This is one of the experiences shared by the indigenous people (Beatle, 63).

Beatle, Keith. Documentary Screens; Non-Fiction Film and Television , New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Lewellen, Tedd. Political Anthropology , Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2003.

O’Rourke, Dennis. Cannibal Tours . 1988. Web. .

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Inquisitive fans of Harry Styles can now see the sights of his hometown, Holmes Chapel in Cheshire — for a small fee of course.

While the As It Was icon has moved out and now spends most of his time in London , dedicated ‘Harries’ are still flocking to the village.

So much so that locals have decided to create an official Harry Styles walking tour , in hopes of improving safety in the area.

Eager fans have been trampling through the town, which is home to around 6,700 residents, in an effort to connect with their idol.

Last year some 5,000 Harries are estimated to have visited, creating issues for locals and questions of safety which prompted The Holmes Chapel Partnership to create the tour.

For £20 per head, you can step inside Mandeville’s bakery, where Harry, 30, worked part-time before his rise to fame on the X Factor as one-fifth of One Direction.

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Encouraging the hype, owners of the bakery have placed a cardboard cut out of the then-teenage star in his uniform ready for fans to take a selfie.

Not devoid of romance, the tour also includes a glimpse of Twemlow Viaduct where the Watermelon Sugar hitmaker had his first kiss.

Sadly for fans, the famed Chinese restaurant, Fortune City, where he took fellow megastar Taylor Swift on a date is too far away to include.

However, the viaduct does have ‘Harry’s Wall’ where the singer wrote his name during the This Is Us documentary, which has now been covered with fans’ messages to the star.

Harry Styles in a Holmes Chapel bakery

Ironically, when he first auditioned for the beloved singing competition Harry declared the town was ‘quite boring’ and added: ‘Nothing much happens there.’

He conceded that Holmes Chapel was ‘picturesque’ but given he rarely, if ever, returns fans are unlikely to bump into him in Mandeville’s.

While to non-Harries the tours seem a little indulgent, the locals insist it had become a matter of safety as fans crossed dangerous roads to get to the viaduct.

The two-and-a-half-hour tour will use traffic-free routes as they visit landmarks of Harry’s youth.

Holmes Chapel Harry Styles tour map

When initially announced, Peter Whiers, the chairman of the Holmes Chapel Partnership, said they loved the ‘enthusiasm people have for Harry’.

However, he acknowledged that there was a balancing act between fans and the reality of a ‘historic village that dates from the 1400s’.

‘So this year we are taking a new route to keeping visitors safe by hosting guided tours to popular Harry locations,’ Peter said.

For anyone hoping to see the Styles sights, the tours will run on Saturday mornings from June 8 and on weekdays from July to September.

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Tadej Pogačar underlines dominance with biggest Giro d'Italia winning margin in 59 years — and he's not done yet

Analysis Sport Tadej Pogačar underlines dominance with biggest Giro d'Italia winning margin in 59 years — and he's not done yet

Tadej Pogacar bows on the bike

Tadej Pogačar has confirmed, once again, everything that we thought we knew.

The Slovenian cyclist is, quite simply, a freak.

By winning the 2024 Giro d'Italia in such emphatic fashion, the 25-year-old wrote himself into the mystic annals of a sport that craves the romantic more than any other.

On the face of it though, there is little to be misty-eyed about.

Pogačar's winning margin of nine minutes and 56 seconds is borderline obscene.

Not since Jan Ullrich won the 1997 Tour de France by nine minutes and nine seconds has a rider claimed victory at a grand tour by over nine minutes.

In fact, Pogačar's winning margin is the biggest at a grand tour since Laurent Fignon won the 1984 Tour by 10:32, the largest at a Giro since Vittorio Adorni in 1965.

His six stage wins is the most by a Giro general classification winner since Eddie Merckx did the same in 1973.

'The best I've raced with': Thomas

Tadej Pogacar waves to the crowd

Pogačar may have just sealed his third grand tour, but in truth, the Slovenian racks up wins for fun across multiple disciplines and race-types.

He already has six one day Monument victories that has led to some branding him the second coming of Merckx, the most versatile rider of the past half century.

While Merckx was called the Cannibal for his insatiable appetite for victories, Pogačar has been christened the Cannibale Gentile by Gazetta della Sport, the gentle cannibal.

"For me he's the best I've raced with I think," said third-placed finisher and peloton veteran Geraint Thomas.

"And I've raced with a lot of good guys."

The 38-year-old sure has, counting among his one-time teammates five-time Olympic gold medal winner and 2012 Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins, seven-time grand tour winner Chris Froome and the greatest grand tour sprinter in history, Mark Cavendish.

Thomas, who celebrated his 38th birthday on Saturday's penultimate stage is also a contemporary rival of seven-time grand tour winner Alberto Contador and four-time winner, Primož Roglič.

Tadej Pogacar rides away from other riders

"He's [Pogačar's] just so versatile and aggressive, and all year round as well.

"It's not just – well, like me, for a couple of months a year where you're good. It's insane how talented he is.

"The only thing is he makes us look pretty slow, but that's the whole peloton, that's not just me."

Pogačar's palmarès already rivals the very best in the sport.

When he won the first of his two Tours de France in 2020 aged 22, he was the youngest winner in 116 years.

His back-to-back victories were only halted by Jonas Vingegaard's emergence as a grand tour specialist .

Tadej Pogacar smiles at Jonas Vingegaard

It is realistically only the Danish rider who stands between Pogačar and a feat not seen in cycling since Marco Pantani managed it in 1998, a Giro-Tour double.

Indeed, Pogačar has already emulated the Italian legend by overcoming a mechanical at the base of the climb to Santuario di Oropa on stage seven , where Pantani did the exact same thing in 1999.

Back to the present though, and two-time defending champion Vingegaard is unlikely to reach the start line in peak condition following his  shocking crash earlier in the season that resulted in a collapsed lung, among other injuries .

"Jonas [Vingegaard] is the only guy that's really on the same level as him," Thomas said.

"But it's yet to be seen how he is.

"The rest – of course, there's always a chance, it's a bike race, but on pure physical talent he's unique."

A three-week long coronation

Tadej Pogacar holds the Giro trophy

Sunday's celebratory procession around Rome was Pogačar's coronation but, in truth, much of the preceding three weeks has been little more than a homage to his greatness.

Saturday's penultimate stage was a case in point .

Pogačar burned through his teammates before embarking on a solo ascent of the Monte Grappa — during which he handed out alms in the form of bidons to young roadside admirers and high fives to others, while also chastising those others who dared reach out to him — in an astonishing display of reckless power.

That 18km long climb, with an average gradient of 8.1 per cent was less of an obstacle to overcome and more a ramp towards his inevitable podium.

"I wanted to finish the Giro with a good mentality and in good shape. I think I achieved that," he said at the finish.

His triumphant roll into the finish in Bassano del Grappa, during which he saluted and bowed to an adoring public like the conquering hero he has become, was a worthy tribute to a man who has lit up a race that his own dominance threatened to overshadow.

"Are you not entertained?" was Pogačar's emphatic demand of a people who know they are witnessing majesty.

If they weren't, they should have been.

Pogačar's mix of dashing attacks and solo chases dared those on the roadside to equate his flamboyant dominance to that displayed by the mechanised deployment of Team Sky at the height of their powers.

Those comparisons are moot though. Never has a rider attacked so wilfully, with such regularity, and with such consummate ease over the duration of a race that will go down in history.

Former grand tour winner Sean Kelly said on Eurosport that there has never been a rider like him, "He has got everything."

'Pog is on a different planet'

Tadej Pogacar turns to the camera with mountains behind him

Pogačar has held such mastery over his rivals at the Giro that he has seemingly been racing against himself — and everyone knows it.

"People were giving the GC guys and me abuse for just racing amongst ourselves," Thomas said on his podcast, Watts Occurring, during the second week of the race.

"To put it in perspective, anyone out there that's a runner, if your best 10k run is 40 minutes, if you start off at 30 minute pace for 20 minutes, just see what happens.

"You're going to blow your doors off, you're going to creep in, and you'll do 49 minutes rather than 40.

"That's what it was like today [on stage 15], I could try and stay with him [Pogačar], but I knew I didn't have the legs, especially with the altitude and everything.

"You can completely blow your doors off.

"It sounds defeatist, but at the end of the day, Pog is on a different planet."

Tour tilt on the cards

Tadej Pogacar rides with his hands up ahead of Jonas Vingegaard

So who can stop this seemingly unstoppable Slovene sensation?

Three weeks is a long time to race, and the cumulative fatigue of dominating a race to the extent that he has — with the added effect of daily post-race press conferences — may yet take its toll when it comes to a mountainous Tour de France later in the year.

Then there is the scrutiny that inevitably follows the world's best cyclist.

Cycling's very history demands a thorough introspection about what is being witnessed.

Too often in the sport's chequered past have things that appeared too good to be true turned out to be exactly that.

It's why the most astonishing of performances have been met with the caveat of a raised eyebrow and knowing wink.

There's no suggestion that what Pogačar is doing is fuelled by anything other than natural talent.

The Slovene is undisputedly a generational star. What happens next will be thrilling to watch.

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