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Spiritual crap fit for self-hating tree-huggers


The filming of the beautiful Amazon river in black and white should have warned me. Oh boy, what an idiotic experience that was.

Where should I start? Oh right, the troglodyt living alone in the middle of nowhere is wiser than university professors, wiser than the audience, probably wiser than the entire universe. Do I have to take LSD to come up with such an idea?

Our delusional caveman thinks he can live peacefully by staying away of people, yet he has no idea of how life operates : You kill to survive or you will get killed. He is born and living in nature but he still has not learned this basic rule of nature. What a fake character.

He burns the only sample of a plant in order to save it? WTF?? No no, not even LSD would cause such a brain damage.

He is against rifles, but blowguns are OK? He can't eat fish before the rains end but he can burn down a Yakruna tree anytime he wishes?

The main narrative of this weird movie is that modernity sucks. Well, modernity is not a choice. Whoever wins, rules. You don't get to choose, my friend. Cry me a river but the trend won't change. If you wanna run things your way, you gotta win first. Winning is everything.

And BTW what the f^ck was all that psychedelic space time drivel in color towards the end?? It made me literally say out loud : "WTF??" Ah never mind, I am not that interested what goes on inside the delusional mind of a self-hating tree-hugger.

The only thing the movie gets right is the portrayal of religion and the believers in general : A total scam and mindless idiots who crave to fall for such scams.

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Pretty much agree with a lot of that.

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How about against nature? Want to win that one too?
Joking aside. I may be wrong but I think the filmmaker was trying to show Karamkate's culture in a positive way with him as the protagonist. But not necessarily saying there is no negative side. After all, he showed the worst side of the tribe drunk and giving the special plant to anyone and everyone without the proper preparation and respect and just as selfish hedonism. Maybe that's also why Karamakate burnt it? I suppose if you look at it that way it's a lament for the worst side of the tribesman's culture as much as it is the European's? Anyway, I enjoyed the film and also found quite a bit of humour in it, especially the guys quite rightly laughing at Theo's love poem.

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Can't say I disagree all that much, except with that attack black & white.

If anything, we need more black and white movies.

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