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
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Contrasts European greed and decadence with the fallout visited upon Africa due to the relentless rape of its natural resources in the name of profit. Full Review |
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A 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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
absolutely brave, unflinching Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
If Sauper wanted to dream up a metaphor for the corrosive effects of globalization, he couldn't think of one much better than the Nile perch. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Sauper's camera, which would fog up if it had tear ducts, looks over Tanzania's nastiness with gloomy forthrightness. Full Review |
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B+ |
It's a heart-breaking cautionary tale for our times that is more a sociological tract than documentary. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The movie prefers to show snippets of life and let the audience make the connections. Many of these scenes prove memorable. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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It's kinda like science fiction -- one of those post-the-collapse-of-nature dystopias of the 1970s -- except it's real... Full Review |
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Hubert Sauper's brutal documentary is up for an Oscar, and it's easy to see why. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The words Being poor is like being old are scrawled on the door of a shack; like this movie, it's a howl waiting to be heard. Full Review |
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B+ |
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. Full Review |
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Darwin's Nightmare is an urgent, horrific, yet at times oddly blinkered vision of the crisis of modern Africa. Full Review |
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B |
Though it obviously concentrates very skillfully on a particular time and place, it also points to larger global issues that should make us all stop and think. Full Review |
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The most depressing and important movie you'll see this year. Full Review |
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