El camino de Martín Negri

A clever combination of drama, documentary, journalist report and fantasy, based on true facts. Martín Negri (who is also seen in archive footage) is a public officer, assigned as inspector in the petrochemical pole in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, where foreign enterprises are the primary sources of air and water contamination of the area, all located in the zone known as Ingeniero White. When Negri refuses all kinds of bribes, he suffers dramatic labor harassment and economic abuse by the State authorities and is led to suicide.

This is not a spoiler: we know from the beginning that this is the story of a dead man. But this knowledge does not prevent the movie (shot by Leandro Aparicio, the lawyer in charge of Negri's case and alternative filmmaker) from impacting, moving and, at times, startling, when the development of the story enters the realm of the fantastic.

An overwhelming work, loaded with information and testimonies that, in the end, together form a powerful document on official political corruption, environmental pollution and human rights to life, health, adequate living conditions and healthy environment. A validation of realistic cinema designed to responsibly question the most delicate areas of social and political intrigues.