Life and Debt
An informative and elegant documentary directed by Stephanie Black, depicts the impacts of globalization on Jamaica. This documentary, what could have been a dry lecture on globalization gets shaped by the filmmaker into a stylized narrative framework which is poetic, incisive and keep u close to the film. The intricacy of international free trade economics and structural adjustment policies will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact. The film opens with the arrival of vacationers to the island—through voice-over, we begin to understand the profound contrasts behind the breathtaking natural beauty of the island. The poetic urgency of narration lends a first-person understanding of the legacy of the country's colonial past, and to it's present day economic challenges.
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