As documentaries go, this is a very hard one to watch and follow. Very little music, a lot of descriptive silences and hand camera footage, etc. The title is way too good for such a movie, which automatically means people watch it with higher expectations than they should and come out disappointed.
The story itself has almost nothing to do with Darwin, but more with the exploitation of the lake Victoria area, a lake that is almost as large as Ireland or a third of Romania. Some time ago, a fish (the perch) was introduced in the lake as a scientific experiment. The fish managed to thrive and destroy almost all other fish in the lake. A foreignly financed fish industry evolved to capitalize the fish, with an estimated market of at least 2 million in Europe.
The story also tells about the drought period in which about 2 million people were starving to death and asking for UN help, while their food was being flown away in "fish planes". Some of the images in this villages of fishermen and hookers are plainly gruesome, like a child playing in a field of rotting fish heads with works crawling over them.
Bottom line: the film is not very well done, but makes a valid point. It accurately describes the way in which poor Africans are bled dry by the industrial corporations, destroying entire people, destroying the life of all species in lake Victoria, destroying the very spring of the river Nile, only for money. If you want to be informed, you should watch it.
The story itself has almost nothing to do with Darwin, but more with the exploitation of the lake Victoria area, a lake that is almost as large as Ireland or a third of Romania. Some time ago, a fish (the perch) was introduced in the lake as a scientific experiment. The fish managed to thrive and destroy almost all other fish in the lake. A foreignly financed fish industry evolved to capitalize the fish, with an estimated market of at least 2 million in Europe.
The story also tells about the drought period in which about 2 million people were starving to death and asking for UN help, while their food was being flown away in "fish planes". Some of the images in this villages of fishermen and hookers are plainly gruesome, like a child playing in a field of rotting fish heads with works crawling over them.
Bottom line: the film is not very well done, but makes a valid point. It accurately describes the way in which poor Africans are bled dry by the industrial corporations, destroying entire people, destroying the life of all species in lake Victoria, destroying the very spring of the river Nile, only for money. If you want to be informed, you should watch it.