This isn't going to make you feel anything except miserable, nauseous and angry. And if that's what you're in for, why not just save your money for The Pink Panther remake?
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02/10/06
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
Deeply felt but considerably less well-reasoned...
02/09/06
In unflinching terms, it captures the hellish existence endured by the many so that the few may wallow in privilege.
02/09/06
It immerses you in its reality one toe at a time, until suddenly you are in over your head, gasping for air as the horror of the situation reveals itself in all its savage devastation.
02/09/06
Top CriticThe irony of guns for fish isn't Darwin's nightmare, it's Tanzania's.
02/06/06
an unforgettable film that ranks as mandatory viewing for anyone who's concerned with the plight of Africa
02/03/06
You can take this as a warning not to mess with Mother Nature.
01/27/06
Sauper's delicately horrific documentary is a short, sharp slap in the face of the developed world, and a long overdue one at that.
01/22/06
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01/17/06
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12/06/05
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12/06/05
Steel yourself for 105 minutes' worth of proof that 'survival of the fittest' is a less reliable model than survival of the luckiest -- or the whitest.
12/02/05
This, Sauper's film says without words, is what the human race has evolved into -- the developed world preying on the undeveloped to the extent that people suffer and die so that two million fillets a day are available to Euro-diners.
12/02/05
[A] despairing, essential documentary.
12/02/05
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
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11/02/05
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
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
Becomes Errol Morris's bad dream -- a documentary apparently uninterested in any factual basis for its arguments.
09/30/05
An uncompromising portrait of how global capitalism can exploit an area's resources to the point of near annihilation.
08/22/05
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