Buy this film
You’re not going to get this blog (or BMS Campaigns generally) encouraging you to buy things much, but we’ll mak an exception with this.
The End OF Poverty? is a superb documentary that has been likened to a kind of Inconvenient Truth for global poverty and economic injustice. This is a film that deals with the heart, the first causes of poverty, inequality and injustice. It examines both the history of economic oppression and its current forms and makes nonsense of the platitudes and often racist theories for why post-colonial countries so often experience high levels of poverty and violence long after independence.
With contributions from Bolivia, Kenya, Tanzania, India and beyond, it highlights the plight of ordinary people struggling against the monolith of an international economic system that sees them as worthless, without descending into manipulative sentimentalism. But it also features those who have worked for the transnational economic institutions who have formed the current situation, academics, activists and many economists.
Narrated by Martin Sheen ane meticulously researched, this is not light viewing, but it is utterly compelling stuff and received much deserved praise at Cannes. The End Of Poverty? is a must for every person wanting to understand how different aspects of economic injustice and deprivation fit together on a global scale.
If you want to be better informed, or just to have a concise film to introduce less-informed friends to the issues of land reform, trade justice, debt relief and economic justice that will not bore them, this is the film for you.
The DVD will be available for purchase (or info will be available) by clicking here in December. You can visit the film’s website, which features potential solutions to global poverty by clicking here and you can view atrailer for the film below.
