Recently we went to see Watermark, which is a pretty cool documentary about water and how people interact with it and affect it. I'm supposed to make a post about this, and I kind of forgot too, so yeah. Here it is.
I found the documentary fairly interesting, because unlike in Manufactured Landscapes, there was minimal dialogue, but just enough to know the essential information behind the photographs. (I haven't actually seen Manufactured Landscapes, but I've been told LOTS about it.)
In Watermark I found it interesting how they showed images from around the world, but it wasn't just " ooo pretty water let's take a pic look I'm in front of Niagra Falls! Instagram this!" because, hey. We are all familiar with that kind of person. This was footage from remote areas, often in developing countries where the water being spat out of a factory is then used to wash your face in. I liked seeing the interactions people have with water, like how we trash it in factories, (tanneries, for example) cluster near it for fishing, and yet somehow people like us in safe places still take it for granted even though there has been lots of information dug up and revealed to show us that we are in fact incredibly lucky to have access to water at all.
Yeah, I think that's it. Bye
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