Executive produced by Leonardo DiCapriothe scattered but touching eco doc ”We are a guardians“Award the inevitable challenge of providing a small – yet comprehensive extensive – window at one of the largest environmental crisis in our planet’s history: the destruction of Amazon rainforest. It is such a big topic that even a spreading mini -series would fight to contain it, and yet the directors Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene and Rob Grobman Linda manage their arms around the disaster in a little more than 80 minutes; Not by simplifying the situation, but rather by contrasting the apocalyptic clarity in the problem of the infinite complexity of solving it.
Facts speak for themselves, tragic because they do not always listen to each other. One of several people in film That helps to anchor the project as more of a quick to activism than a burning artwork, climate scientist Luciana Gatti speaks to the camera about how the Amazon is the world’s largest carbon (and its largest supplier of rain), and why destroys it represents an existential threat to our entire species. Comes from Brazil Alto Rio Guama Territory, domestic activist Puyr Tembé is approaching the same truth from a more personal perspective. Her people have been defending their country against colonizers for more than 400 years – a dynamic worldwide that has forced the indigenous people, only five percent of the global population, to protect 80% of the planet’s biodiversity – and has resulted in more than 600 voluntary members in the forest’s custodian lonely.
From his hometown of Zutiwa, the group’s regional coordinator Marçal Guajajara regrets that all trees that have been cut down a life. But wrapping the logging companies responsible for taking these lives is not an easy question of patrolling the forests; The companies were given the power of the Bolsonaro administration’s corruption, funded by an international consortium of the world’s most powerful banks and relying on the work with utilized locals who cannot afford not to work for them.
Valdir Duarte knows that his job is “wrong” and yet – after being forced to release from school and supporting his family when he was only eight years old – he has no other ways to feed the children he almost never can see. Not because Duarte’s circumstances inspire any sympathy from landowners such as Tadeu Fernandes, who has devoted his life to ecological preservation, and is not over threatening violence against the illegal logs he finds on his country.
“We Are Guardians” is certainly more willing to recognize Duarte as a victim in this mess, but – as you may conclude from the film’s title – there is never any doubt about who the heroes are in this story. More surprisingly, the film reserves equally doubt for the effectiveness of their cause. The type of film that ends with a QR code, “We Are Guardians” exists to inspire people to take action before seemingly insurmountable circumstances, and, to the extent that the doctor achieves this goal, does so by emphasizing how moral clarity is the most effective weapon towards an intractable network of sin – through sin can be so -called sin as small as small wins can be so -called sin as small wins
There is only a handful of actual scenes In the film (most of its Runtime consists of the interview training), but Tembé’s meeting with a flotilla of domestic Açaí thieves is remarkable enough to reason during the duration. The situation has the potential to become violent at any time, even though the thieves insist that their weapons are only for protection against Jaguars, but tembs deepen it by reminding them that their actions ultimately harm themselves.
“We Are Guardians” is spread far too thin to sit with the meeting and track its branches in detail, but the simplicity of that moment is galvanizing in their own right, if only because it suggests that individual people still have the power to save our planet from the edge (a power confirmed by Bolsonar’s defeat, and the election of several indigenous. The film is upset by the work that Brasil’s indigenous peoples have done on that front for centuries, and at the same time encourages the rest of us to participate in their struggle, because it is our struggle as well.
Rating: B-
Area 23A releases “We Are Guardians” in NYC theaters on Friday, July 11.
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