absolutely brave, unflinching
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08/20/06
Darwin's Nightmare (2006)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:47
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: This eye-opening documentary brings some of the shocking effects of globalization to light.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Synopsis: The local population fishes for food in Tanzania's Lake Victoria, but remains on the brink of starvation as the fish they catch is shipped off to Europe. Filmmaker Hubert Sauper takes a look at... [More]
Director: Hubert Sauper
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Reviews for Darwin's Nightmare
Sauter's illustration of economic Darwinism at its most primal and unforgiving is a harrowing vision of human life as collateral damage in the modern global economy.
02/23/06
Becomes Errol Morris's bad dream -- a documentary apparently uninterested in any factual basis for its arguments.
09/30/05
Top CriticThe irony of guns for fish isn't Darwin's nightmare, it's Tanzania's.
02/06/06
A shocking and soul-shaking Austrian documentary about the dire effects of globalization upon the poor citizens of Tanzania.
03/23/05
As much a sociological horror movie as a documentary, this artfully chilling film examines what happens to a nation's environment, economy and political ecology when the law of the jungle is allowed free rein.
10/13/05
Top CriticSauper is no polemicist, and his close observation and eye for challenging juxtaposition provides more than enough impetus for engagement.
08/21/05
The West's plundering of the natural resources of Third World countries may not be a new story, but Austrian director Hubert Sauper's compelling documentary succeeds in revealing the subject in a memorable new light.
05/10/05
You can take this as a warning not to mess with Mother Nature.
01/27/06
If Sauper is fired up by anti-globalist conviction, his instincts as an artist and as a man rule out any kind of rhetoric or cheapness.
02/28/06
Top CriticLike the terrible brainchild of Naomi Klein and David Lynch, it combines bizarre sights with jaw-dropping revelations, a striking cast of characters with global awareness.
08/03/05
It's one of the best films about the ugly reality of the global marketplace.
08/03/05
Darwin's Nightmare is an urgent, horrific, yet at times oddly blinkered vision of the crisis of modern Africa.
02/15/06
Top CriticA horrifying vision of globalization gone terribly amuck.
03/11/05
In unflinching terms, it captures the hellish existence endured by the many so that the few may wallow in privilege.
02/09/06
Darwin's Nightmare is many things, including an environmental cautionary tale, a critique of globalization and a portrait of a community, country and continent in deep crisis.
12/01/05
Top CriticStrange and terrible are the ways of man.
05/20/05
Top CriticA film of intelligence and great empathy that examines the corrosive effects of imperialism on people often left off the pages of history's textbooks. A heartbreakingly great film.
04/02/07
It's kinda like science fiction -- one of those post-the-collapse-of-nature dystopias of the 1970s -- except it's real...
02/28/06
Sauper's documentary is meant to reveal first-hand the devastating effects of globalization -- at least, an irresponsible form of it -- on a poor, foreign culture, and for the most part it succeeds.
10/14/05
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