tryptonaut
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There seems to be a rerun of the BBC series, so the MV group is releasing one episode per day right now. Today was number 3 of 6.
I have already known one film with Bruce Parry where he visits a virola-snuff using tribe, I'm not sure but I think this is part of the 6-episode series "Amazon" as well.
I watched the first two now, and he went from visiting ilicit cocaine producers in the Peruvian Andes to two different Ayahuasca ceremonies with different approaches.
However the series is not about drugs, it's about going down the amazon and taking one-on-one impressions of whatever comes along. Bruce Parry is quite good at this: whatever the people he visits do, he does. The tribe he stays with drinks two liters of bitter tea every morning that makes you vomit like hell - Bruce Parry also drinks that tea every morning
The only "negative" point about this whole docu is that it is made so perfectly from a technical standpoint that it sometimes makes the whole thing look a little staged. They are shooting with a huge HD broadcast camera, and even in the deepest jungle they do have perfect picture and sound (which means a soundman with a large boom-mic is always around).
One tribe is described as really hostile and the elders argue not to let the gringos into their village - but the whole argument is shot from multiple angles with the cameraman all over the place.
Then at night they shoot an interview with one of the tribesmen which is nicely lit - a camera team with a huge camera, boom-mic, extra lights and then also a translator - that would even cause the hell of a fuzz in most European villages, so I guess the story mostly over-dramatizes the "realistic" conditions they are in.
Nevertheless a great and entertaining documentary (I mean film and tv always lie to their viewers to a certain extent about their real-ness, so what...)
See for yourselves - I think it's a really entertaining docu:
http://www.mininova.org/get/2328112
http://www.mininova.org/get/2331501
http://www.mininova.org/get/2334708
(next parts will be coming in the next days, there are no links yet)
I have already known one film with Bruce Parry where he visits a virola-snuff using tribe, I'm not sure but I think this is part of the 6-episode series "Amazon" as well.
I watched the first two now, and he went from visiting ilicit cocaine producers in the Peruvian Andes to two different Ayahuasca ceremonies with different approaches.
However the series is not about drugs, it's about going down the amazon and taking one-on-one impressions of whatever comes along. Bruce Parry is quite good at this: whatever the people he visits do, he does. The tribe he stays with drinks two liters of bitter tea every morning that makes you vomit like hell - Bruce Parry also drinks that tea every morning
The only "negative" point about this whole docu is that it is made so perfectly from a technical standpoint that it sometimes makes the whole thing look a little staged. They are shooting with a huge HD broadcast camera, and even in the deepest jungle they do have perfect picture and sound (which means a soundman with a large boom-mic is always around).
One tribe is described as really hostile and the elders argue not to let the gringos into their village - but the whole argument is shot from multiple angles with the cameraman all over the place.
Then at night they shoot an interview with one of the tribesmen which is nicely lit - a camera team with a huge camera, boom-mic, extra lights and then also a translator - that would even cause the hell of a fuzz in most European villages, so I guess the story mostly over-dramatizes the "realistic" conditions they are in.
Nevertheless a great and entertaining documentary (I mean film and tv always lie to their viewers to a certain extent about their real-ness, so what...)
See for yourselves - I think it's a really entertaining docu:
http://www.mininova.org/get/2328112
http://www.mininova.org/get/2331501
http://www.mininova.org/get/2334708
(next parts will be coming in the next days, there are no links yet)
