Mardi Gras: Made in China (2006)
Runtime: 74 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
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Reviews
Goes halfway around the globe without halfway giving us perspective.
... doesn't make you proud to wave the red, white and blue, and even manages to sober up a few Mardi Gras revelers in the process ...
Mardi Gras: Made in China is a thought-provoking, canny piece of filmmaking that puts flesh, blood and garish multicolored baubles on the skeleton of globalization.
This smart, witty look at the human cost of free-market reforms and globalization tracks the necklaces from hard labor at one end to hedonism at the other.
At minimum, this two-dimensional documentary does a decent job of displaying cavalier consumption alongside globalization and exploitative manufacturing.
Feels like a sermon on vegetarianism being delivered to occupants of a Sudanese refugee camp.
Would play better if it were more focused and less repetitive.
When [Redmon] runs out of things to say, his film lands in an anticlimactic puddle, just like the shiny trinkets forgotten after the party ends.
A startling look at both the effects of globalization and at a dramatic cultural divide.
This sly, engrossing doc is an expert riposte to smug proponents of the fetterless free market.
Every time you lift your shirt, some Chinese girl is reaching her twisted, aching hand for another Band-Aid.
Redmon blunts his own provocative points by trafficking in easy ironies and overstating the obvious throughout 78-minute pic that likely would be more effective as hour-long (or shorter) pubcast program.
Redmon is impressively hands-off, allowing the material to speak for itself about the headless beast of globalization.
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