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Breaking Social

  • 2023
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
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Breaking Social (2023)
Documentary

Examines turning points that make people want to organise and protest such as the assassination of an investigative journalist in Malta and a dried up river in Chile.Examines turning points that make people want to organise and protest such as the assassination of an investigative journalist in Malta and a dried up river in Chile.Examines turning points that make people want to organise and protest such as the assassination of an investigative journalist in Malta and a dried up river in Chile.

  • Director
    • Fredrik Gertten
  • Stars
    • Rutger Bregman
    • Gerald Bryson
    • Sarah Chayes
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
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    • Director
      • Fredrik Gertten
    • Stars
      • Rutger Bregman
      • Gerald Bryson
      • Sarah Chayes
    • 2User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 nominations total

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    Rutger Bregman
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    Gerald Bryson
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    Sarah Chayes
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    Pasquale Cioffi
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    Jennifer Craig
    • Self
    Brett Daniels
    • Self
    Joanna Demarco
    • Self
    Romina Escudero
    • Self
    Matthew Caruana Galizia
    Matthew Caruana Galizia
    • Self
    Peter S. Goodman
    • Self
    Sven Hughes
    • Self
    Pablo Laso
    • Self
    Angelika Maldanadonoz
    • Self
    Ivanna Olivares Miranda
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    Valentina Miranda
    • Self
    Andrea Gana Munoz
    • Self
    Octavio Gana Munoz
    • Self
    Caroline Muscat
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      • Fredrik Gertten
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    6severajaaho

    Best of mashup of socially conscious documentaries from the past decade

    The film is a combination of societal documentaries done in the past decade. It presents a critical outlook on the global economic system (Inside Job from 2010 and the forcaster from 2014), discusses it's effects on people (Push from 2017), critiques the ultra rich and their effect on the society (generation wealth from 2018), interviews young activists who are aiming for a regime change (The Square from 2012, How to Change the World from 2016 and Joshua from 2017), and also has an overarching somewhat bleak narrative with a call to action as it's core message with some footage of nature as well as an environmental perspective (David Attenborough a life on our planet from 2020). Overall this film is ambitious in it's scope in attempting to weave all the stories and the whole picture together, maybe at times to the point that it can loose its coherency. It has a normative undertone in that it asks relevant and important questions while also attempting to push people to be more active, though it does not give very clear answers towards where. In a way it's a mashup of "best of" documentaries with social commentary from the past decade both in it's form and also how it looks, but does not provide anything particularly new or revolutionizing as a documentary film or as a story.

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    • Release date
      • August 11, 2023 (Sweden)
    • Countries of origin
      • Sweden
      • Netherlands
      • Norway
      • Switzerland
      • Finland
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    • Also known as
      • Den store løgna
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      • WG Film
      • Sveriges Television (SVT)
      • Film i Skåne
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      • $110
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      1 hour 33 minutes

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