Movie #1319 "Fire at Sea" is another academy award nominated documentary for this year, and this one I don't get why it was nominated. It's too long, it has way too many gaps (at one point I was able to read WHILE I was watching it), and I have to admit I never did get to the end. I think there was a 10 minute discussion about throwing up that I was following (or not) at one point. I applaud the topic -- Europe's immigration struggles, but there isn't enough info given on what is going on --- the film primarily follows a little boy who tries to keep busy on this island, and he is a product of immigrating (doesn't he go to school?) and spends time making slingshots and shooting at cactus (that was a pretty long and boring sequence). What I found much more interesting is the treatment of all these immigrants that come onto this island with very little infrastructure (like hospitals, etc.) to take care of them once they get there! We see the guards frisking each and every one of them ---- but that's all I saw after watching it for an hour, but I'm assuming we find out what happens to them once that is over? But not sure. I just felt it should be worth the time since it was nominated, but I felt it wouldn't win, so I moved on. Maybe some day when I have much more time, I might go back and see how it ends, but for now, I have other nominated films to watch. 2 stars out of 5.
"FIRE AT SEA" 2016 1 hour and 48 minutes
An island halfway between Sicily and Libya has become the vortex of Europe's immigration struggles, as observed in this documentary on Lampedusa, where more than 150,000 Africans each year make their first contact with European soil.
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