Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Documentary recommendation thread
Options
Comments
-
-
-
-
-
cloudatlas wrote: »I enjoyed Sherpa as well, beautifully shot. There seemed to be a lot of economic coercion on all sides. I guess Russell was protecting his Sherpa's from blame and his business at the same time, he reminds me of an army sergeant more than a businessman, life is harsh get on with it. I didn't like how he condescended to them about their demeanour and tried to twist their religious beliefs.
That was awful. I couldn’t believe he said to them “People see you as happy and smiling and these few are ruining your reputation”. I couldn’t believe he was saying the “happy and smiling” view of them was a good thing. So patronising, like they’re simpletons rather than complex humans. That betrayed a colonial mindset on his part. And there was no indication at all that anyone had threatened the Sherpas with violence so to have to sit there and listen to that must have been galling. I’d say plenty was said by the Sherpas in Nepalese about Brice behind his back.
I don’t see how he was protecting his team from blame. I think he threw them under the bus and chickened out of explaining to his clients that the Sherpas just didn’t want to climb after the awful tragedy. I bet they were also worried about the stability of the icefall after that huge serac fell off. He kept calling them irrational but there was nothing irrational about being devastated by such a tragedy and worried for their safety. I didn’t quite catch what he was saying about having to pay for rope and other equipment himself. That seemed to another factor in him cancelling the expedition but he said nothing about that to the Westerners.
It’s funny, if the tragedy hadn’t happened and had just continued as a documentary about scaling Everest from the Sherpas’ point of view, I think Brice would have come out of it looking good. In the first half of the documentary, he came across well. But his true colours came out when stress hit. The documentary gave him and the Westerners enough rope to hang themselves with but the caption at the end about Brice was complimentary so Peedom still seemed to want Brice to be seen in a positive light.0 -
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
In 2015, a fire at Bucharest's Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists....Following journalists, whistle-blowers, burn victims, and government officials, Collective is an uncompromising look at the impact of investigative journalism at its best.
Just finished watching this. It was very well shot, I felt like I was sitting next to the journalists and sitting in the minister of health's office. The journalists are great characters.1 -
Advertisement
-
cloudatlas wrote: »
In 2015, a fire at Bucharest's Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists....Following journalists, whistle-blowers, burn victims, and government officials, Collective is an uncompromising look at the impact of investigative journalism at its best.
Just finished watching this. It was very well shot, I felt like I was sitting next to the journalists and sitting in the minister of health's office. The journalists are great characters.
Where did you watch it ?0 -
-
-
-
-
-
Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »That was awful. I couldn’t believe he said to them “People see you as happy and smiling and these few are ruining your reputation”. I couldn’t believe he was saying the “happy and smiling” view of them was a good thing. So patronising, like they’re simpletons rather than complex humans. That betrayed a colonial mindset on his part. And there was no indication at all that anyone had threatened the Sherpas with violence so to have to sit there and listen to that must have been galling. I’d say plenty was said by the Sherpas in Nepalese about Brice behind his back.
I don’t see how he was protecting his team from blame. I think he threw them under the bus and chickened out of explaining to his clients that the Sherpas just didn’t want to climb after the awful tragedy. I bet they were also worried about the stability of the icefall after that huge serac fell off. He kept calling them irrational but there was nothing irrational about being devastated by such a tragedy and worried for their safety. I didn’t quite catch what he was saying about having to pay for rope and other equipment himself. That seemed to another factor in him cancelling the expedition but he said nothing about that to the Westerners.
It’s funny, if the tragedy hadn’t happened and had just continued as a documentary about scaling Everest from the Sherpas’ point of view, I think Brice would have come out of it looking good. In the first half of the documentary, he came across well. But his true colours came out when stress hit. The documentary gave him and the Westerners enough rope to hang themselves with but the caption at the end about Brice was complimentary so Peedom still seemed to want Brice to be seen in a positive light.
Well said0 -
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
-
*sees that there is a new post in this thread*
*sees that the recommendation is for another true crime documentary*
It's a recommendation for a documentary that I'm sure a lot of people are waiting for, after so many would have listened to the 'West Cork' podcast.
Perhaps start another thread entitled "Documentary recommendations (that S.M.B would be interested in) thread" and see how that goes for you.
Personally, I think there's a nice mix of recommendations in this thread.0 -
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLgGoT7v3ro
Advertisement