8/10
the title is indeed appropriate
15 January 2006
Warning: Spoilers
(the following contains no spoilers, how can it, this is no fiction playing with your emotions) So what if the movie is not filmed as certain people would like it to be filmed. ..."scenes out of focus"...come on this is ridiculous.

This is just a documentary, showing the lives of people in parallel to the fish export industry (it does not focus on the ecological disaster). Who wants a plot? why talk of simplification? why talk of manipulation...again this is ridiculous.

This is mainly roar video footage, with no comments from the director. It's not cinema, it's someone with a camera talking to people willing to talk about their lives. It's simple, it's not propaganda (I do not think the director cut footage he deliberately wanted to hide from the viewer, again i cannot believe how insane someone can be to be able to say this is leftist propaganda), and it let's the viewer think by himself.

The film does not give answers. The mass arms trade is not proved, but how can it? No one involved in this at a high level would be willing to talk. This should be seen by anyone who has the slightest interest in life, it is however not a unique film, and is in the line of many other good docs. But not many directors manage to get millions of people to view their footage, and in this Sauper succeeded. I thank him for this.
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