I feel guilty giving any movie which attempts to show the world a major genocide less than 5 stars. The movie is about a group of generic western journalists wanting to report on the genocide in Darfur. From what I gathered from the movie, the genocide is a race war consisting of Arabs Muslims killing black Muslims. The Arab Muslims known as the Janjaweed blame the West for the genocide because they (the West) want to give rights to black people.
The journalists go into a village and interview the villagers so we get to know them. Then after they leave they espy the Janjaweed headed toward the village. Some of the reporters decide they need to go back and "help." In order to show realism, or due to budget concerns, the camera shots all appear to be hand held. While the motion isn't as jerky as amateur filming, I found it noticeably annoying. Whatever political statement the movie was trying to make was lost to the amateur film making.
While there were moments when you feel the intensity and rage, I found them to be short lived, partly because of the western journalist simply drank themselves into a stupor after the village attack, a scene shown at the beginning of the movie.
Oh those poor people, pass me another bottle of Jack.
The journalists go into a village and interview the villagers so we get to know them. Then after they leave they espy the Janjaweed headed toward the village. Some of the reporters decide they need to go back and "help." In order to show realism, or due to budget concerns, the camera shots all appear to be hand held. While the motion isn't as jerky as amateur filming, I found it noticeably annoying. Whatever political statement the movie was trying to make was lost to the amateur film making.
While there were moments when you feel the intensity and rage, I found them to be short lived, partly because of the western journalist simply drank themselves into a stupor after the village attack, a scene shown at the beginning of the movie.
Oh those poor people, pass me another bottle of Jack.