Heavy handed, and poverty chic. Actual diabolical plot largely unbelievable, but beautiful, and touching, and I fell madly in love with the screenwriter for the short riff on how corporate murder works.

And yes the trailer is a damn lie.

Benjamin and I saw this movie with my father-in law on Saturday at the Majestic Bay theater. I love that theater. The movie was extremely compelling and beautifully shot. I thought the storytelling was good. I wonder whether the story is a wild conspiracy theory or if this stuff really happens. It also made me want to better understand the situation in Sudan.

There’s much to like about this movie, but the structure of the story left something to be desired—all of its major questions are answered halfway through the movie, making the second half merely perfunctory. And the script is regrettably heavyhanded, not trusting enough of its audience to allow us to draw our own lessons from the story.

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