the poetry of the title


A person speaking Jamaican will pronounce the word "death" the way the word "debt" sounds.

Thus, this movie's title, "Life and Debt" is a delicious pun; debt = death in Jamaican patois and, indeed, the thesis of this film is that IMF loans with their requirements and interest resulted in economic death which of course must then be followed by social and cultureal implications, as poverty crushes a society.

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