Sekula's overwritten narration, with its fair share of whoppers, does his argument no favors, overwhelming genuinely interesting statistics.
The Forgotten Space
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Netherlands, Austria · 2010
1h 52m
Director Allan Sekula
Starring
Genre Documentary
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Based on Sekula’s "Fish Story," this documentary explores the contemporary maritime world in relation to the complex symbolic legacy of the sea, following container cargo aboard ships, barges, trains and trucks, listening to workers, engineers, planners, politicians, and those marginalized by the global transport system.
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Unabashedly polemical and rigorously pessimistic, a sustained Marxian indictment of 21st-century capital. The narration, by Mr. Sekula, is at times lyrical and rarely subtle, but the film is most graceful and moving when its argument slows down or wanders into an interesting tangent.
For the most part, The Forgotten Space treats its subjects and settings as exploitable commodities in service to a lot of facile rise-working-man! muckraking. The ism trumps all.
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