Life and Debt

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Documentary 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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7.4/10

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- 2 wins

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Belinda Becker

Narrator
(voice)

Buju Banton

Self - Singer

Horst Köhler

Self - Director, International Monetary Fund
(archive footage)
(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
(archive footage)

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Self - President, Haiti

Yami Bolo

Self - Singer

Tom Lipetzky

Self - U.S. Potato Board
(archive footage)

Kathy Owen

News Anchor

Jerry J. Rawlings

Self - Former President, Ghana
(archive footage)
(as Jerry Rawlings)

Jamaica Kincaid

Narrator
(uncredited)

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Quotes
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

Crazy credits
Special heartfelt gratitude to the interviewees who share the truth with such eloquence.

Connections
Referenced in The North Pole Deception (2010)

Soundtracks
G-7
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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Lots of painful accuracy

As a development worker in Jamaica, I can say that there is a lot of painful accuracy in the movie. Yes, tourists do act that badly, almost unanimously if you only count the ones who spend their time here locked away in a guarded resort. And now over half of ever tax dollar goes to paying foreign debt...