Word: sauperã
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...Mwanza Airport in Tanzania and arrive a few days later eager for more. The marvel of foreign currency creates a market for security guards, who risk their lives for a dollar a night, and for local prostitutes, who cater to the lonely plane pilots. After months of bonding between Sauper??s team of two and this eclectic variety of workers, the filmmakers obtained honest confessions that illustrate the collateral damage of poorly regulated international trade. A recurrent question adds both suspense and cohesion to the film: as the planes take fish to Europe, what do they bring...
...association of political films with propaganda springs partially from their similarly visceral impact and their ability to affect the viewer; however, as a spectator pointed out after Sauper??s screening of “Darwin’s Nightmare” two months ago at the Harvard Film Archive, any successful art form shakes viewers emotionally. This effect should not be deemed as ghastly or even as a synonym of the much feared “propaganda.” In fact, it is quite the opposite. Drawing from scholarly research by P. M. Taylor, the main difference...
...Messiah-like revelation. One-hundred seven minutes of hard-to-digest reality rapidly come to an end. But as artistic masterpieces ought to do, it will keep any viewer thinking for a long time to come: about fish, about globalization, and about what each of us can do. In Sauper??s own words, he merely “gets some brains boiling.” By avoiding the dangers of propaganda and staying in the realm of art, he successfully challenges audiences worldwide. And with some luck, this might earn him an Academy Award in less than...