The Back of the World
2002VOTE NOW
| Release Date: May 22, 2002 |
Summary:
A documentary comprised of three stories about forgotten people around the globe, including an impoverished Peruvian boy, a Kurdish exile living in Sweden, and a death-row inmate in Texas.
Each of these stories is terribly sad and terribly moving in its own right. Yet the film that Mr. Corcuera has spun around them only increases the viewer's sense of helplessness and passivity. No solutions are suggested, no actions are proposed, no reflection is invited. The misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle, to be consumed and forgotten.
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