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Blue Gold : World Water Wars
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Director
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Mark Archbar
- A Syracuse graduate who has made numerous non-fiction film.
- Most famous for "Corporation"
Si Litvinoff
- Producer of many sci-fi films, also had a film dealing with water crisis prior to Blue Gold.
Sam Bozzo
- Blue gold was his first documentary film; he had been previously making short films.
- Also made the documentary Hackers.
- Throughout the film, Mr. Bozzo shows that he agrees with the author of the book.
What is the most essential substance for life ?
Water / H2O
Structure
The film follows many interview that introduce the topic.
There isn't any chronological order but the film is divided onto categories : Crisis, Politics, solution, etc...
Blue Gold
- The documentary is based off the book Blue Gold: The Right to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water by Tony Clarke and Maude Barlow who are both interview extensively in the film.
- The film contains of multiple interviews (~3/5) from a wide pool of people from Nobel prize winner to economists to corporate CEO.
- The documentary captures videos and images to depict the topic being discussed in the interviews with occasional instances of standalone graphics.
Validity
- The documentary is fairly creditable due to the various interviews of many different people.
- The film gave events to support its claims.
Purpose
The purpose of the documentary:
- make the public aware of the of the privatization of water by corporations and how it's bad for normal people and water conservation
- calls attention to the accelerating contamination of usable water on Earth and desertification
- stresses the need to change our way of using water.
Cinematic Effect
Tone
- Music
- Focus
- Angle
- Scene shot
- Point of View Shot
- Throughout the documentary, there was an underlying sense of urgency due to the water crisis.
- There were also many moments in the film where evident anger is shown towards the private water corporations.
- Mostly near the end, the tone was one pleading for change but also an uplifting sense that the problem can be fixed.
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