You know that expression, "preaching to the choir"?
I am the choir. It should have been easy to get me fully on their side, and get a high star rating from me.
Instead, I was continually distracted by the poor writing. It felt as though every other sentence started with "But...". I'm not even one of these people who believe that you should never start a sentence with a conjunction. However, it is definitely a pet peeve of mine when a documentary is written in such a way where it seemingly only makes a statement in order to then juxtapose it with the next statement, which invariably starts with "But...".
Not only that, it also made matter-of-fact statements, without backing them up in any way, simply because it suited their narrative. For example, when they stated that the KPK chairman and deputy chairman were arrested on fabricated charges. I am not saying that this is not true, but why not state instead what these charges are, and that the accused denied them as fabricated, or something along these lines?
This film would have come across as more balanced (it really is incredibly lopsided) if they had addressed, rather than ignored, challenges with renewable energies. All these "green" technologies are far from "green" in their production. Producing an electric car, for example, is more emission intensive than producing a regular car, due to the batteries. If you only focus on how much greener they are to run, and ignore the higher energy required to produce them, you are not providing a balanced picture, and people who know this will use it as a reason to dismiss the film as all lies.
There are other things, but I'll leave it at that.
As for the narration, I honestly do not know what they were going for, but the bland, slightly depressed tone and slow speech felt somehow patronizing, making the poor script all the worse.
What a disappointment.
