Flow: For Love of Water

2008 "How Did a Handfull of Corporations Steal Our Water?"
7.5| 1h24m| en
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From both local and global perspectives, this documentary examines the harsh realities behind the mounting water crisis. Learn how politics, pollution and human rights are intertwined in this important issue that affects every being on Earth. With water drying up around the world and the future of human lives at stake, the film urges a call to arms before more of our most precious natural resource evaporates.

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Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
Evengyny Thanks for the memories!
Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
tachyon-7 Just a terrible terrible documentary. It only shows one side of the situation, which is the film-makers right, but doesn't really give the viewer any unbiased information to form their own opinion.The whole thing is a tirade against big business, but they miss the mark on which types of businesses they are targeting. Sure, Nestle is pumping 216,000 gallons of water per day out of the ground, but what about the water that is wasted daily on cooling nuclear reactors, doing coal seam fracs (small fracs are about 600 m3 of water, 600,000 litres, or about 150,000 gallons).The film-makers didn't do their homework, the whole documentary feels like it was rushed and it didn't dig very deeply into the history behind what is going on or why. They raised a few interesting points, but could have made those same points in about 10 minutes, not 90.I watch a documentary to be educated and possibly entertained, this documentary didn't meet that criteria, so I am unable to recommend it to other viewers.
razmatazern Flow made me pretty angry at big businesses and the few corporations that have control over most of the water industry. It especially got me angry during the parts about the poor areas that don't get water flow just because the big businesses are greedy and think everybody should have to pay for something that is completely natural and comes from the Earth. It boggles my mind that water is not as easily obtainable as it should be for everyone. Water is a necessity in life and should be easily accessible. Any film that can work me up like "Flow: For the Love of Water" should be considered a good movie. Flow is very informative and interesting, and everybody should watch it to learn about the corporations that control our water. Also, the film is beautifully made and well-put together.
Antonio This film is as important, or maybe even more so, than any film you will see this year. While, most of us go to the theater to watch make-belief and whimsical movies, it's also nice once in a while to see films which touch us all as a human race. I see someone mentioned that this film is blatantly "one-sided" - well, it should be. Water is what we all need to LIVE, simple as that. When major corporations around the world start to get control of this natural resource: there is a problem. If a company can create a movie that can justify the other side of this issue, being the killing of young children through bad water in other places of the world then I'd love to see it. The movie was not "anti-capitalist" - it was "PRO-Human" and believe me, I'm no tree-hugger, in fact, I'm all business, all the time. But when business hurts innocent people...then there is a problem. This movie is about the growing issue of lack of water, an issue that will be growing in the next few years. A must see, in my humble opinion.
thug_thug I watched this at Bloor Cinema yesterday, luckily missing the TTC strike might I add, with my high school.The movie is obviously biased and it shows -- and that's not a bad thing. It takes a gritty, firsthand look into the atrocities many parts of the world face day in and day out, eventually juxtaposing our overconsumption.Maybe it was due to the director being there (in the theatre) and letting us know it took her four years to make, but the movie had heart. It faces the problems and also takes a look at solutions, finally ending with what people are doing on our own continent.It's a mixture of life over there and life on North America. It's real.I had a few problems with the pace and editing, along with a shot of a girl being pushed down (it was shown on screen twice, to my calculations) that felt taken out of context. The movie also felt slightly lacking, like the information wasn't totally delivered.It makes you want to feel like an expert without truly paying it's part of the bargain. But that's a minor gripe.This is definitely one of those movies that everyone should see.