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Starts promising, then heads straight into politics

posted 13 years ago by bureau203
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It starts out as a nice travel/adventure documentary, but within 30 minutes it devolves into the basest kind of political whining. This isn't a movie about a trip, it's a movie about how evil the cellulose plant owners are, and how wonderful the conservationists are, and how the people on Easter Island were destroyed by capitalism, or just competition, but it means the same thing.

It's sad that a promising travel film couldn't stay focused and instead had to take the low, easy road into politics.

If you want a film about environmentalist politics, with a little bit of rock climbing and sailing thrown in, this film is for you.

"I've seen things that would make you want to write a book on how to puke."

[–] edmountainman 12 years ago

Whether or not the cellulose plant owners are evil is inconsequential to the end result of it pouring its waste into the ocean. I am sure if you were living next to a plant like that your demeanor and perhaps politics would be slightly if not greatly different.

Its a shame for all the beautiful cinematagraphy both at sea and on land you were limited by focusing on the politics instead of the wonder and awe of such places.

There is an adage, "chew on the fish, spit out the bones."

It appears you chose to chew on the bones.

And that is what is ultimately sad.

[–] bureau203 12 years ago

I didn't choose to focus on the politics. The director did. I'm watching the film he created. I don't get to choose what he says in it.

"I've seen things that would make you want to write a book on how to puke."

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