Review of Human

Human (I) (2015)
4/10
Beautiful but expected
21 January 2019
Beautiful overhead scenes of different rural areas around the world, and touching stories from people. Really, it's nicely filmed and good to listen to experiences. Is it representative of humans? Absolutely not: it's done mostly as a political statement with a large representation of immigrants, a battered woman, military man in Iraq, poor Indian farmers etc. The questions they were asked are obviously to delve in to left wing issues, and focus on poverty, homosexuality,. inequality, climate change etc. So really on the whole it's pretty depressing. However, there is a level of sincerity about it, and some interesting stories. I enjoyed it, but it starts to get as wearing as a vegan protest in a grill bar. Maybe a bit more diversity (like happy people and not just characterising black and Asians as poor). I felt really it didn't really delve into the depth of culture in the way it should, without prejudgment. That lack of sophistication taints it, but it's still interesting.
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