2006-09-19

电影:Darwin's Nightmare (2004)

综合引用于这样两个页面(汉字为我给出的注释):1, 2
Director导演 Hubert Sauper, an Austrian who lives in Paris, has made an award-winning documentary记录片 that slyly suggests its themes right from the start; the tower operator at a Tanzanian坦桑尼亚 airport has to kill a bee before he can clear a plane for landing. What kind of plane? A huge Russian transport that, everybody assumes, arrives empty. When it leaves, the plane will carry 500 tons of fish fillets that will feed millions all over Europe. The fish is Nile perch鲈鱼 from Lake Victoria, the area's only natural resource. Since being introduced into the lake a few decades ago, the predatory fish has prospered―at the expense of most other life in the lake.
Around the lake, amid rotting perch carcasses and rusting hulks of crashed cargo planes, Fish Cities have sprung up, strange Interzones where a jumbled sampling of humanity ekes out a living. Indian entrepreneurs work hard to keep their perch factories up to EU standards. Tanzanian fishermen skin dive to chase the huge fish into nets (until the crocodiles get them.) Russian pilots enjoy $10 prostitutes whose husbands have died of AIDS while watchmen earn $1 a night to stand guard with poison arrows. It's a job that can get them killed―but that goes for the whores, too. After dark, the streets of Fish City teem with orphans who fight over food and use molten perch packaging as sniffing glue. With a perfect eye for the telling detail, Sauper gets us close to all of them.
But I haven't told you the worst. The shocking secrets of Fish City are more horrifying than any X-Files plot and infinitely crueler than even John LeCarre's villains. Just to ensure that this convenient state of affairs remains in place (and, of course, to make a nice tidy profit), the vast 'empty' cargo planes arriving from Europe actually seem to be (illegally) laden with weaponry to be sold onto the genocidal wars in Africa. The planes are then packed full of huge amounts of Tanzania's abundant supplies of fish (at times to the point that they're too heavy to take off), and flown back out of the country while the majority of its population face the bleak prospect of famine.

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