Sounds like a sure bet for an Academy nomination!
I am now inspired to sit in front of my phone & record, all in one continuous shot, a 250 minute documentary detailing my 1 month marriage & 11 month divorce, back in 1984.
Talk about an exciting documentary!
To be honest? I watched it all.
Ever wonder why Africa is as undeveloped as it is? Watch this video and wonder no more! It follows a Chinese company’s attempts to build a 20 KM road in the Congo to connect 2 “towns”. And reveals their interactions with the locals that they’ve hired, the constant thievery (They have to measure the fuel in the generator in centimeters because if they measure it in an greater point someone will steal JUST ENOUGH every night to make the previous measurement still valid, but nets them some diesel). Shows the company trying to deal with local gravel vendors. (You get there at noon and the boss isn’t there yet, so the workers are just standing around doing nothing. The workers don’t know anything, and can’t do anything until the boss gets there. When he DOES arrive he has very little information, and obviously doesn’t have enough big rocks to be able to produce 2 truck loads of gravel for the day). There’s a point when the workers are tasked with doing something. They do it, and it takes them an hour to come back to report that it’s done, and to get their next assignment.
And the Chinese have thrown a bunch of money and some people to try to get this done, and at the end of the documentary it looks like they haven’t gotten 1 meter of road done, let alone 20 KM. (13 miles).