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[barbarapolster]

Hubert Sauper’s Epicentro (2020) . . . . Una película sobre Cuba que captura un poco de la complejidad, especialmente en relación con los EEUU #epicentro #hubertsauper #🇨🇺 https://www.instagram.com/p/CE67WktFwti/?igshid=1f6htuhj7q3ip

[y2shae]

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[thedochound]

Darwin's Nightmare (2004) - Directed by Hubert Sauper

The story is of Tanzania and the fish they have in Lake Victoria, the second largest lake in the world. The huge fish are caught and then packaged as fillets in the factories and sent on big airplanes back to feed the West. Meanwhile, the people of Tanzania are faced with famine and dependent on food aid. The new fish market has given Westerners a reason to come to Africa and throughout the film, Hubert asks what kind of cargo come into Africa in the airplanes. At the end, it is suggested that the cargo contains the weapons that continue the long and deadly war in the Congo. One of the Russian pilots even said, “For Christmas Day, children in Europe got grapes and children in Africa got weapons.”

The most memorable scene for me came towards the end of the film when a kid who couldn’t be more than 10 years old sat down next to his friend in the street alley in the dead of the night. He hands his friend a plastic bottle filled with freshly melted plastic. The children got hold of the plastic from the fish packaging that fell into the lake. This particular scene shows the two kids holding a cigarette in their right hand and sniffing the bottle with their left. They breathe the poison in and out and under two minutes flat, one of the kids collapse on his side, now in a deep sleep that snuffing induced. The melted plastic gives you a high, then puts you out like a coma. For hungry kids, it helps pass the time and forget their situation.

Another moment that made my heart drop was seeing the woman pick up fish carcasses from the mound the factories left behind. After the workers are done taking most of the meat from the fish, the fish heads and skeletons are dumped into a pile, where worms crawl all over. The woman reaches into the pile one by one and places them on wood sticks, kind of like how we might hang laundry out to dry. Her feet squish the bugs and creepy crawlers go in between her toes, but she doesn’t even notice them. This woman is just grateful to have some kind of work.