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The film is telling the story of several workers, helping to extract oil from the tar sands around Fort Mc Murray in Canada. The author lets the people speak, offering practically no comments.
This documentary seemed pretty boring at the beginning. To me, the identity of the female narrator was not clear. It seems that actually two women were speaking, and only one appeared on the camera.
During the first half of the film we see the bright side: very high salaries. One of the skilled workers is able to enjoy extravagant exploits, once reserved for the aristocracy and the very rich.
Then the indigenous people begin to tell a troubling story about the wild animals in the area, the health of children... Watch the aerial survey of the extraction site... What happens if and when the oil price falls? You will see the answer. The authors of the film actually worked in Fort Mc Murray. A sobering film, worth watching.
This documentary seemed pretty boring at the beginning. To me, the identity of the female narrator was not clear. It seems that actually two women were speaking, and only one appeared on the camera.
During the first half of the film we see the bright side: very high salaries. One of the skilled workers is able to enjoy extravagant exploits, once reserved for the aristocracy and the very rich.
Then the indigenous people begin to tell a troubling story about the wild animals in the area, the health of children... Watch the aerial survey of the extraction site... What happens if and when the oil price falls? You will see the answer. The authors of the film actually worked in Fort Mc Murray. A sobering film, worth watching.
This film is a highly original and successful mixture: hard realities of life in Africa are interspersed with fantasy to make it less painful. Some scenes are unforgettable: the way a government bureaucrat behaves in the presence of a local queen; the prejudices people of both sexes have against people that look somewhat unfamiliar, the sneering position of the queen toward the education of girls. In light of these facts it is really strange that »patriarchy« and "misogyny" is mentioned in several of the (admittedly politically correct) reviews.
I could not understand one scene where a former "witch" chooses to test the reactions to her former figure in the public? But this is a minor issue.
I strongly recommend this touching film on the human condition.
I could not understand one scene where a former "witch" chooses to test the reactions to her former figure in the public? But this is a minor issue.
I strongly recommend this touching film on the human condition.
The movie proved to be a waste of time. Some reviewers were hurt by it; I find it ridiculous.
We see a Marxist father of six kids age 8-18. He venerates Noam Chomsky and together with his Buddhist wife has led the family to live in a forest and kill animals for food - a typically Buddhist activity! He is drilling his kids to be something like Antifa Special Forces. This regime and the homeschooling without electricity has produced magical results: at least three of the children are geniuses; the 16-17 year old has mastered theoretical physics at graduate school level (the difficult mathematics behind it is not even worth mentioning), and so on. Really, this film is as anti-intellectual as it can be. (It is no exception in this regard to many US movies; I always laugh when, on screen, I see »Math professors« scribbling meaningless formulas, as if taken from American comic books.)
The 8 year old daughter of the family has built a shrine to Pol Pot; after all he killed millions of Christians and Buddhists, and the family despises Christians. I will not go on with the plot: I find it ridiculous, and shallow, and the same goes for the acting. The photography is good, though.
We see a Marxist father of six kids age 8-18. He venerates Noam Chomsky and together with his Buddhist wife has led the family to live in a forest and kill animals for food - a typically Buddhist activity! He is drilling his kids to be something like Antifa Special Forces. This regime and the homeschooling without electricity has produced magical results: at least three of the children are geniuses; the 16-17 year old has mastered theoretical physics at graduate school level (the difficult mathematics behind it is not even worth mentioning), and so on. Really, this film is as anti-intellectual as it can be. (It is no exception in this regard to many US movies; I always laugh when, on screen, I see »Math professors« scribbling meaningless formulas, as if taken from American comic books.)
The 8 year old daughter of the family has built a shrine to Pol Pot; after all he killed millions of Christians and Buddhists, and the family despises Christians. I will not go on with the plot: I find it ridiculous, and shallow, and the same goes for the acting. The photography is good, though.