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  Review by brotherdeacon ★★★

  It's difficult for me to extract the value of this documentary as separate from the value of the Cogi people's brave observance as stewards ("elder brothers") of the planet. I hang my head in self-reproach at their generous insistence on warning the world. Unfortunately, we know our transgressions and murderous incursions on planet earth. We've read our history, we've bought our stocks and bonds. We've known for centuries. And yet, we continue our ways. The truth is, whether being warned from Cogi, or Inuit, or Sioux, or San, or Andaman Islanders, or Aboriginal Australians, or Ashaninka, or even some well-documented scientists and whistleblowers: We Don't Care.

  Ours is the world of dividends, new automobiles, chemical engineered agriculture, religious barbarism, corporate…

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  Review by Juee

  "Our message is not only for people here but people all over the world.
  Younger brother must listen and stop causing damage or nature herself will finish us off."
  They don't know that younger brother has turned deaf, blind and acting as if sleeping.

  Elan whatever his name, has himself turned deaf, blind and is dead inside and he made horrible mistake of not believing in Kogi people's warning.
  If didn't believe why make a documentary!?!?

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  Review by Cecil Wh ★★★★

  a village of indigenous Kogi people in Columbia ask this director to deliver a message to the rest of the world for them. they are deeply connected with the ecology of their region and understand the global hegemony’s obsession with empiricism so they walk western scientists step by step through their worldview of irreplaceable interconnectedness. it’s completely tragic and gorgeous. the director tries to play devils advocate? or is assuming that the viewer will look down on the material? so we must stomach his unnecessary insertion of himself into the picture. there are some tremendous scenes which I can feel tattooed onto my mind’s eye. profound piece of media.

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  Review by Marvies ★★★★

  Touching and eye opening. It takes place along "the golden thread line" (water & mountain power spots) along the Colombian coast. The main Kogi guy is so clear-eyed, polite, and determined as he tries to channel his obvious frustration with the damage done by "Younger Brother." A sober and inspiring message for anyone looking to understand and contribute to planetary healing.

  The tension and respect between the director and Kogi tribe is a rare show of candor, skepticism, cooperation, and faith. On Gaia

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  Review by alanak17 ★★½

  oof my low rating for this is not because of the Kogi people and their knowledge and their openness to sharing and pleading with the world for us to stop our endless destruction, but because of the fucking white men.

  how disrespectful it is for Alan to lead and center himself at random points in this documentary, to act incredulously the whole time about Indigenous ways of knowing and ask every white scientist “is it really true??? there’s no way it doesn’t make sense to me.” He was condescending, clearly viewed himself as superior, and really gave me the ick (and just perpetuated a lot of harmful beliefs while trying to “showcase the Kogi/the Mamas’ views.” 

  Thank god for the few okay scientists in here who shared just how rooted and truthful and valuable TEK is, but goddamn so many settlers suck I can’t believe the documentary was filmed/created like this by Alan specifically

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  Review by whatsupiloveit ★★★★★

  ‘She will carry on the thread’.
  Thanks Lara xx

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  Review by puzzot ★★★½

  bardzo przykre ze tyle czasu poświecono białasowaniu rezysera

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  Review by Shane ★★½

  oh to direct a movie and give urself the “and”

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  Review by Annabelle Rose

  bothers me that a lot of people within this movie and then those watching often comment something along the lines of, “we already know all of this and the [real] reasons why climate change is happening!” thanks, captain obvious. we know that you know what we all already know.

  what you aren’t doing is giving a shit enough to change how you view the world/ the interconnectedness of all things- scientifically and philosophically- that’s what the Kogi are begging you to do.

  the Mama are saying the same thing we are. But they’re also asking us to consider the importance of specifics + locality under the reality of climate change- by walking us through their own struggles with local wildlife habitat…

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  Review by goldfed ★★

  This is a narrative documentary about the claims of the indigenous people of la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia concerning to the environment and climate crisis.
  This demonstrates that sometimes the intention can be good but the means of doing it not too much. I like the disposition of Alan and his team to get enough funds and help the Kogui and their fellow communities message to be heard around the world, and also let them decide how the film was going to be. However, it really pissed me off around the whole film that Alan never really believed their words and he was always trying to ask scientists about if what they say was true or not.…

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  Review by lalavilhjalmur ★★★★½

  "This is our place and we are telling you. Not just today but for 500 years. What are you doing here?"

  Everytime I see something like this the image of Spongebob Squarepants, gleefully shouting 'I will destroy the Krusty Krab' pops up in my mind only that it's us destroying the earth and it's also not an imagination.

  What I specifically loved about this was that it's not primarily a documentary about the Kogi but a documentary by the Kogi and also how determined they were to add a hopeful ending to it all.