The Great Invisible

Name: The Great Invisible
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 29, 2014
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 72

2014

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RADiUS-TWC | Release Date: October 29, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. It killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill in American history. The explosion still haunts the lives of those most intimately affected, though the story has long ago faded from the front page. At once a fascinating corporate thriller, a heartbreakingOn April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. It killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill in American history. The explosion still haunts the lives of those most intimately affected, though the story has long ago faded from the front page. At once a fascinating corporate thriller, a heartbreaking human drama and a peek inside the walls of the secretive oil industry, The Great Invisible is the first documentary feature to go beyond the media coverage to examine the crisis in depth through the eyes of oil executives, survivors and Gulf Coast residents who experienced it first-hand and then were left to pick up the pieces while the world moved on.… Expand

Director: Margaret Brown

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Chris Nashawaty

Nov 6, 2014

Most of all, it's a sobering look at a part of coastal America that will never be the same again. Read full review

James Adams

Oct 23, 2014

The Great Invisible is a dense, disturbing look at the effects (personal, political, economic, ecological, macro, micro) of the disaster. Read full review

Mike Scott

Dec 12, 2014

Yes, it is first and foremost a thorough chronicling of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but its real value is in its function as an expose on the energy industry, which, with aid and abetting from the federal government, repeatedly places profit above all else, including environmental concerns and human safety. Read full review

Nick Prigge

Oct 26, 2014

It effectively demonstrates how the systemic cause of the Deepwater Horizon explosion was tied as much to society's staggering dependence on fossil fuels as to the oil industry's greed. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Oct 29, 2014

The Great Invisible is strongest when it focuses on the micro rather than the macro. How the spill impacted individuals in the region is the real story of The Great Invisible. Read full review

Martin Tsai

Oct 28, 2014

The Great Invisible gives voice to many of the previously nameless and faceless victims of the disaster. Some worked on the oil rig that fateful day; others have suffered its environmental and economic consequences. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

Oct 28, 2014

Unfortunately, given both its content and the media's collective failure to fully report the (ongoing) story, the film only intermittently has a pulse. Read full review

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Devilmath

Sep 27, 2015

The Great Invisible will particularly resonate with UK audiences, as it recounts the explosion of British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, triggering the worst petrol spill in American history. Director Margaret Brown’s investigation encompasses everyone affectedThe Great Invisible will particularly resonate with UK audiences, as it recounts the explosion of British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, triggering the worst petrol spill in American history. Director Margaret Brown’s investigation encompasses everyone affected by the tragedy: from the eleven Deepwater Horizon workers who died during the explosion, to the ones who survived, forever marked with deep pshychological and physical scars. The film also reports on the effect that the spill had on various cities on the coast. The destruction of the ecosystem and sealife that sustained thousands of families caused many job losses across the region; nevertheless, we see top oil businessmen gather to pat each other on the backs, complimenting on the increasing profits at their yearly conference in Houston.

Brown constantly shifts the focus between different but complementary aspects: the working class people in Alabama, struggling to obtain the compensation they were promised; former Deepwater Horizon workers providing first hand details about the disaster; oil industry representatives, smoking cigars and reassuring each other that fuel fossils are still the way to go; BP’s disastrous handling of the situation, and its political and judicial implications. The result is a logical, informative, radical documentary that will make your blood boil, and rightfully so.… Expand

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