This film breaks my brain. Corruption seems like a thing we know that happens, but the way that this unfolds is at an absurd level. It has gotten so horrible that it can’t be fixed. It also shows how important voter turn out is super important. The film reminded me a lot of HONEYLAND, another international documentary that plays like it was written like a script. You really forget at times that it is an actual documentary. However, unlike HONEYLAND, I have no idea how the hell they made this and all the access they were given in. There is a scene where the film focuses in on one of our “characters” during a meeting involving a big group of people and there is a small moment where he snaps a piece of plastic. It’s one of those moments, I’m shocked they were able to grab. Its extraordinary. The reason the film works so well is because the human faces/toll at the center of everything with the fire. The video footage of the fire is some of the scariest footage I’ve ever seen. I don’t how I would have handled being in that situation.
