i pride myself on never walking out of theaters but i had to walk out of this screening at the literal venice film festival (!!).
the "documentary part" shows images of multiple suspected and/or confirmed genocides (Duterte’s mass killings in the Philippines, the internment of Uyghurs in China, and the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza) but offers the viewer basically no critique or call to action. Horrific images are used but to no purpose other than to "shock." As…