The Human Surge

Name: The Human Surge
Released: 2016
Rating: 48.56
Cast: Sergio Morosini, Shine Marx, Domingos Marengula

2016

Documentary

1h 39m

Work and leisure--particularly in the "developing" world--has inexorably shifted to a quasi-industrial, quasi-service hellscape where everything is commodified and interpersonal relations have taken on many new forms. Williams's shape-shifting network narrative (or is it documentary?)--jumping from Buenos Aires to Mozambique to the Philippines in three linked parts all revolving around listless youth--deeply understands these dynamics and presents us with a mysterious. (PIFF40)

AKA:

El auge del humano

Countries:

Argentina, Brazil, Portugal

Languages:

Spanish, Portuguese, Visayan

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2016

Documentary

1h 39m

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Lonewolf2003

Rated 23 Nov 2018

I'm not against this kind of meditative non-narrative fly-on-the-wall stuff, but this just didn't work for me for long stretches in the movie. For it to have any value as a meditation on the lives of modern youth the people portrayed should be more representative, which I feel they weren't. The shift from Argentina to Mozambique was absolute genius. For a first time director Eduardo Williams does show some promising skills. Let's just hope the subject matter next time matches these skills.

Rated 23 Nov 2018

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