Like so much of Brügger’s controversial guerrilla documentary “The Ambassador,” this scene is queasy-making, hilarious, infuriating and depressing. Is he poking fun at the casual racism that underlies so much of human thought? Or the fact that if you pay someone enough money, he’ll agree with whatever you say? Or the simple, dumb irony of a white European, one who is trying to smuggle blood diamonds out of Africa with a purchased diplomatic passport, presuming to hold some sort of moral high ground over anybody? At least the China-bashing moment is subject to multiple interpretations, whereas the scene involving jokes about Adolf Hitler and Moët & Chandon Champagne, or the one in which Brügger plays recordings of whale songs for Pygmy tribesmen, just seem like murky postmodern pranks.

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