9 out of 13 found this helpful. It all amounts to a big "so what" when it should and could have been so much more. 4 out of 6 found this helpful. | Rating: 6/10 Reviewed at the World Premiere screening Sept. 9, 2006 at the Isabel Bader Theatre during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
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We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. The film gave visual context to Burtynsky's photos, which was helpful because sometimes you just can't believe that his images come from the real world. In the end the viewer is confused... is this a movie about a photographer or is it about the human and environmental downside of a globalized consumer culture?
Manufactured Landscapes goes so far past anything remotely thought provoking that the experience of watching it is like that of being forced to sit and look at white noise, with the volume of the "kssssssssssh" blared on surround sound (actually, I would perfer the "ksssssh" to the actual soundtrack of the movie, which must consist of the same three droning notes endlessly, rumbling along, making my ears hurt). The review that appeared in the Boston Globesaid the film "begs to be hung on the wall, studied, absorbed, and learned from" and also "taken as a whole, Manufactured Landscapes is a mesmerizing … 3 out of 19 found this helpful.
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September 12, 2007 The enormity of the factory is unbelievable. Movies, even documentaries, need a point. Copyright © Fandango. It's shocking to see what happens to our recycling, the cities being torn down to facilitate a giant damn and in general the greater harm for profit & progress. That there might be a connection between the present-day Asian drive for industrialization and wealth and earlier experiences of starvation and terror is never mentioned. - items which most of us perceive as utilitarian at best and dismiss as being utterly without aesthetic merit - are instead converted into glorious objects d'art by Burtynsky's camera. Was this review helpful? Watching a worker assemble a small electrical component at lightning speed and then later watching peasants tapping the metal off of computer chips for recycling reminded me that industry grinds down people as well as landscapes. Was this review helpful? You watch in awe, disgust, or even pity, as nature and God exact their powers upon something so pitiful. Please enter your birth date to watch this video: Beautiful cinematography even if at times the slide shows took a lot of space.
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