A bunch of pretty pictures by Edward Burtynsky woven together with some minimal narrative and snippets from a TED talk.If you don't have access to a decent photo gallery or museum, watch this movie. That is, if you can tolerate loooong tracking shots with zero dialogue. The movie features scenes from an electric iron factory floor in China, e-waste recycling village in Fujian, a loading dock, a massive shipyard in China, recycling dockyard in Bangladesh, a coal mine, the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, old and new neighborhoods in Shanghai, etc.
I'm sure the photographer is trying is to tell us something about social inequality, human consumption, rampant industrialization, wanton pollution, etc. Me, I'm just here for the pretty pictures.
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