Darwin's Nightmare

It's like someone tore out my heart, threw it to the ground, and stomped on it. It makes the situation harder to piece together than need be, but makes you feel every bit of it, and when you piece it together you just don't know what to do or how to feel.

Makes randian libertarians appear as selfish and stupid as they really are, well, not the intent but that's how I took it.

Terribly despressing documentary that, while good, still has it's share of problems. A lot of it issues are presented in a contextless manner. Providing information that, unless you know about the situation beforehand, is almost impossible to process beyond "this is bad for some reason." The documentary also drags in certain places. Still it's a terribly bleak, honest and depressing documentary that informed me about a subject I knew nothing about.

If Sauper's opinion wasn't clearly tipped at various points in the film I'd be tempted to call the lack of coherent context cowardly, instead I'd just call it unnecessary and detrimental. There are enough cues in the film that the problems are mostly apparent,but there's such a dearth of contextualization that it's not very informative or engaging. A badly edited fly-on-the-wall style when a powerfully edited and strongly narrated style would be a better fit.Some of the footage is great, though.

Darwin's Nightmare is a merciless and chilling indictment of global capitalism. After watching it, anyone who professed to see no causal relationship between the poverty of Africa and the opulence of Europe will be forced to think again. If the film has any fault, it is that it offers no solution to the problems it documents--indeed, the filmmaker seems resigned to the idea that humanity can never rid itself of poverty and exploitation.

A bleak view into the reality of the people who reside around Lake Victoria. Some scenes such as the racks and piles of fish remains made me cringe as the people picked through it for scraps of food.

Fantastic documentary

Grimy, ugly doco has an amateurish and slap-dash feel designed to give it an intimacy and urgency but makes it a frustrating and discomforting experience – perhaps that’s the point, but the stylistic choices take it right to the brink of repellent. However, the story it wants to tell is a noble (and disheartening) one, but a lack of a solid narrative spine makes it difficult to become involved in (professing ignorance of the situation, this really doesn’t give much of a clue to the uninitiated).

It's all the documentary fish-juice you could ask for, regarding unapollogetic exploitation and nature law in action. But what really strikes is the characters, shining through crummy closeups at night, sucking you into intimacy and daring you to turn away.

It's fascinatingly depressing how some guy thinking 'well let's just release this fish into this here African lake' years ago can lead to a situation that's so hideously fucked up it makes me want to melt in pure shame for my fellow (greedy) human being. Could've used some more exposition regarding certain scenes, information-wise this docu is rather scarce. Still, the sense of wrongness is ever present.

An awful situation I didn't know of. What a depressing documentary. The situation there is totally wrong. I just wish the world would change, instead of importing things from other countries, arrange everything locally, or from our own continent. It's a start I think. Meh, stupid humans

"A horrifying vision of globalization gone terribly amuck." - Ed Gonzalez