An examination of the ever increasing strife between locals suffering from the ravages of war in Africa and those profiting from local fishing industries. The dusky blue waters of Lake Victoria stretc...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 26, 2007
Stats: 313 reviews
Damn. Forget modern torture porn, This and JESUS CAMP are the scariest horror films of 2006.
Anyone with a taste for documentaries with intellectual drive or anyone who admires filmmakers like Errol Morris or Werner Herzog will hopefully embrace the challenging subject matte...( read more)
The second of two depressing documentaries I watched in a row.
You can?t blame the movie for the infinitely interesting subject and great interviews with people, but the movie just seems to trapse through and record what happens and but it together in happenstance. It could have...( read more)
I had a feeling of watching a disturbing sci-fi film rather than a documentary. Sadly, I don't think great films as such are able to raise the awareness among those who are able to do something. Anyway, the whole situation in Tanzania is so critical it looks like there's no solu...( read more)
Moral of this story. Don't introduce crazy-assed killer fish into your lake. You're going to starve to death.
Scary and chilling. If you need something real to get upset over, this is the movie for you.
As much a sociological horror movie as a documentary, this artfully chilling film examines what happens to a nation's environment, economy and political ecology when the law of the jungle is allowed f... full review
The documentary tries to pin Africa's suffering on capitalism, but dances around the real problem. full review
Hubert Sauper's harrowing, indispensable documentary about Tanzania presents the agonized human face of globalization. full review
OMG THIS LOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD I LIKE WANNA LIKE SEE THIS FILM HEAPS OMG LIKE AN EXAMINATION OF STRIFES BETWEEN NATIONS MG SOUT ATICA DUSKY BLUE OMFG ROFLMCCOPTER!
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