Payback

documentary

Interesting doc based on a book written by Canada's Margaret Atwood on debt. Not debt as personal financial obligation so much. Debt as in paying a debt to society by a prisoner, BP's debt to all of us for its massive pollution of the Gulf, blood feuds in Albania...

The grand scope of the project provided its own interest for a while but after an hour or so the film lost focus...even though each of the segments was clear and righteous presenting them as linked conceptually made all of them too diffuse and amorphous to resonate.

Nice try though. First rate production values.

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