geo_pahas Reviews

Trophy (I) (2017)

Trophy hunting from an American point of view

[7/10 · 20 November 2017]

I watched this documentary in Amsterdam documentary festival. It is certainly very hard to watch and the director(s) have made a good job shooting this film.

In our case they were present on the screening and in the short discussion that followed they confirmed my view that they approached hunting and conservation almost exclusively from a financial point of view. Also the co-direct (who is American) mentioned in the discussion that there must be a financial intensive to preserve wildlife. This might be true when the human habitat extends to the animal one but the conservation discussion should not be based on financials but on the greater cause of animal survival. There was certainly no such intensive for thousands of years and i wonder why it should be now. There is absolutely no justification on killing an animal to make a selfie with it.

For reasons not entirely clear, they failed to mention in the film the ban of all hunting in Botswana since 2014. A close view to what is happening in that country might give some answers to the good questions posed in this documentary.

Having said that, it is a must see. I was even convinced (to a certain degree) of Mr. Huume's initiative.

Elysium (I) (2013)

Nice story, too much violence

[6/10 · 18 August 2013]

I went to see this movie with my girlfriend hopping that we would have a nice evening and enjoy a movie with a similar atmosphere to District 9 but unfortunately this was shadowed by the too much and unnecessary violence.

In this movie there is a clear and powerful message in many levels (social, political, corruption, philosophical etc) but all is spoiled by the constant and extreme scenes of violence.

I have the feeling that this movie would appeal to a much wider audience if it was not for the extremely violent scenes. At least myself i can recommend it to a handful of my friends who can take that!