Life and Debt

2001
Not Rated
1h 20min

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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaDocumentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.

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- 2 premios ganados en total

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Belinda Becker

Narrator
(voz)

Buju Banton

Self - Singer

Horst Köhler

Self - Director, International Monetary Fund
(material de archivo)
(as Horst Kohler)

Michael Manley

Self - Former Prime Minister of Jamaica

Stanley Fischer

Self - Deputy Director International Monetary Fund

Michael Witter

Self - Professor of Economics, University of West Indies
(as Dr. Michael Witter)

David Coore

Self - Former Minister of Finance, Jamaica

Bill Clinton

Self - President of the United States
(material de archivo)

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Self - President, Haiti

Yami Bolo

Self - Singer

Tom Lipetzky

Self - U.S. Potato Board
(material de archivo)

Kathy Owen

News Anchor

Jerry J. Rawlings

Self - Former President, Ghana
(material de archivo)
(as Jerry Rawlings)

Jamaica Kincaid

Narrator
(sin créditos)

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Narrator: "Jamaica was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493. Not too long after, it was settled by human rubbish from Europe, who used enslaved but noble and exalted human beings from Africa to satisfy their desire for wealth and power. Eventually the masters left, in a kind of way; eventually the salves were freed, in a kind of way. Of course, the whole thing is, once you cease to be master you're no longer human rubbish, you're just a human being and all the things that adds up to; so too with the slaves, once they are no longer slaves, once they're free they are no longer noble and exalted, they are just human beings." based on "A Small Place" copyright 1987 Jamaica Kincaid

Créditos curiosos
Special heartfelt gratitude to the interviewees who share the truth with such eloquence.

Conexiones
Referenced in The North Pole Deception (2010)

Bandas sonoras
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Written by Ziggy Marley (as David Marley)
Performed by Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
Courtesy of Elektra Records
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
Used by permission of Colgems-EMI Music Inc.

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An eye-opening look into Third World economics.

Life and Debt is an arresting, soul-stirring documentary with fantastic images and a story that will haunt you long after the movie is over. I hope that watching it makes you reconsider what you know about how the world works economically, and the role of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

This film is an adaption of Jamaica Kincaid's novel "A Small Place," originally based on the story of Antigua (changed to Jamaica for the purposes of this film). If you enjoy the movie, be sure to read the book. In the film, as in the novel, Kincaid's voice-over narration is a powerful reminder of the complicated relationship between tourist and native, powerful and powerless, oppressors and oppressed. I would recommend this documentary to anyone interesting in how developed nations like the United States affect the development of Third World countries like Jamaica, even if you know nothing about it.