Is it too beautiful?
I often view "3rd world countries", as these harsh places where hunger, crime, sweatshop conditions, and just a host of other negative conotations stand out, so when i saw this film, with it's beautiful images, and uplifting soundtrack, i was wondering how much of it was true, and how much of it was just romanticizing the "noble savage," and taking these countries completely out of context by showing how beautiful it all is? I think that it's good to "third world" countries, showing them this way, as all too often people have only those negative connotations, and so they want to go there to convert people, or to westernize them, in which we lose all that cultural diversity, but i think there perhaps should have been more of a balance, as this movie focuses too much on the positives, IMO, and almost makes it look like hard labor is a joy for many of the workers who sing and move like a dance while mining, and that some of these areas are paradises. I assume that people living there agree that it is both beautiful, but also a hard life, one perhaps worth the labor, though many are steadily turning towards the west to have the advantages of western civilization do the labor for them, which I'm not so sure is necessarily bad. I agree technology is messing up the planet and our social interactions, even our sense of what is right, wrong, true happiness, etc., but at the very same time i get lot's of happiness from being on the computer writing this, to watching my DVD of Powaqqatsi, to listening to CD's, etc. Do other people find this conflict with too much western civilization, and how do we resolve it, do we stop using the technology? can we go back to the times before it infiltrated every aspect of our life?
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