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Brave Blue World

  • 2019
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6.7/10
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Brave Blue World (2019)
Brave Blue World is a documentary that paints an optimistic picture of how humanity is adopting new technologies and innovations to re-think how water is managed.
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Brave Blue World is a documentary that paints an optimistic picture of how humanity is adopting new technologies and innovations to re-think how water is managed.Brave Blue World is a documentary that paints an optimistic picture of how humanity is adopting new technologies and innovations to re-think how water is managed.Brave Blue World is a documentary that paints an optimistic picture of how humanity is adopting new technologies and innovations to re-think how water is managed.

  • Directors
    • Tim Neeves
    • Alexander Whittle
  • Writers
    • Steven Goldsmith
    • Aoife H Kelleher
    • Tim Neeves
  • Stars
    • Liam Neeson
    • Matt Damon
    • Jaden Smith
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    946
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Tim Neeves
      • Alexander Whittle
    • Writers
      • Steven Goldsmith
      • Aoife H Kelleher
      • Tim Neeves
    • Stars
      • Liam Neeson
      • Matt Damon
      • Jaden Smith
    • 27User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Matt Damon
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    • Self - Co-Founder Water.Org
    Jaden Smith
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    Sanmit Ahuja
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    • Directors
      • Tim Neeves
      • Alexander Whittle
    • Writers
      • Steven Goldsmith
      • Aoife H Kelleher
      • Tim Neeves
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    4MarcoParzivalRocha

    Save water and skip this one

    Several testimonials, including some from some Hollywood celebrities, about their views and solutions on how to solve the global water crisis.

    I never thought I would find a doc. about helping planet Earth and its population bad, until I saw this.

    It is an absolute chaos, starting with inconsistencies about what is said by each interlocutor, to gross editing errors, like the images (it is at the level of hearing aid ads or telemarketing about smoothies machines) to the sound and the terrible choice of the soundtrack, but above all, for not giving us anything relevant to retain on such an important subject.

    When dairy or meat production industries are not mentioned once, pretty much everything is said about the purpose of this "documentary".

    Worth a few points for references to a couple of technologies that in the future may help solving the problem, but not right now.
    9hubgre

    Positive message - not perfect film (it's not hollywood, its Earth!)

    'It never ceases to amaze when the critics come out to play. I just can't figure out why they've zeroed in on a *positive* piece as this. It's astounding. I'd normally ignore yet I know for a fact - human nature dictates - there's hundreds of positive folk for each 'hater' (scientific or bias accuser) up here. Yes, I get that there's DuPont and others. I concur the big players are not playing well. Yet, we collectively must (must!) work towards the good stuff.

    As far as I'm aware this is an optimistic look at the options. I commend the makers and I too am biased, I've known of this in the works for years. I am thrilled it's out there and moreover grateful, to cut-through the chat and get the new message to the new scientist who will over time weed out the institutionalized neg-heads. Sorry to sound crass or cruel, I don't mean to. But the gentle whiff of positivity needs to be encouraged and protected. Go make your own documentary and let me know and I'll support you all the way. Meantime, please treat this one as a 'asks the right questions' piece, that let's remember has really make it to the mainstream, as this has! A piece of work to inspire and hopefully to lead by! Congratulations!''
    5MovieGeekBlog

    A important message in badly produced film

    I was shocked by how badly this film was put together. From the way it's edited, to the choice of music (and how it's laid into the film), to the cheesy introduction shots of the contributors, the jump cuts and sound cuts (you literally hear the cuts during Matt Damon's interview), down to the way it's written: not just cheesy commentary, hyperboles, random links trying to stitch scenes together and things which are obviously been written without even looking at the film (There's a hilarious moment where the commentary says "this man is... etc etc..etc... " over the shot of the sky. We only see the "man" in question after a few seconds. That's film-making 101). The most impressive vistas are actually stock shots (I even recognised some from the Shutterstock Library). It is disjointed and confused, cheesy, one-sided and simplistic, but I suppose the core message is probably what counts here (and how they were able to get people like Matt Damon and Liam Neeson), which is also why I'm not giving it 1 star. There are some interesting snippets here and there and however badly the film is made, it does paint a promising picture of how new technologies are helping us to manage, clean and re-use our water. It's a shame that such an important message was only able to get such a bad piece of film-making. Even more astonishing that it currently has 7.3 on imdb.
    9kellehao

    A must watch for all

    I recently watched this documentary with my family and kids over the weekend. I was eager to see what Matt Damon had to say about water!! All of my family enjoyed the film and learned something new including my 8 and 9 year old kids who have just informed me they would like to work in water!

    The solutions presented were the right mix of science and story and the film really broke down some of the challenges in the water industry.

    I hope there will be a Brave Blue part 2 or a series where they will go more into detail about each of the different areas within this complex industry.

    (Beth's story was without doubt my favourite!)
    7thomascbsmith

    Some interesting technologies but missing some key points

    A number of these technologies are very interesting and promising, but the notion that they're a panacea, that the technology is all there and all that lacks is political will, investment and societal change is frankly false. The energy intensity of many of these solutions is a key problem that was not covered, whilst the prohibitive cost of installing and maintaining others, particularly in developing countries, was not really mentioned. Furthermore, the biggest anthropogenic uses of water, e.g. for irrigation, provide some of the greatest opportunities to reduce water use, so that using marginal sources to reach the very high levels of purity required for drinking may not be required. But innovations in irrigation which dwarf other savings were hardly mentioned at all. It's great to see this massive issue in the popular mainstream, and I credit the creators with achieving that, but a more thoroughly researched sequel would be helpful in due course.

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    • Release date
      • October 21, 2020 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Canada
      • United Kingdom
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Vidunderlige blå Verden
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      • BlueTech Research
      • Brave Blue World Foundation
      • Prospect Arts
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