Movie Details
| Title: | Tales of the Organ Trade | |
| Director: | Ric Esther Bienstock | |
| Year: | 2013 | |
| Genre: | Documentary | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 09.23.13 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 09.23.13 | Alamo Lakeline | This Screening is part of event: FantasticFest 2013 A HBO documentary about the organ transplant black market, most significantly dealing with kidneys. I'd never call this movie objective since it presents a clearly biased point of view in that poor people from third world countries are willing to sell their organs and rich people from first world countries don't have enough healthy kidneys to go around so what's the problem why are these doctors being prosecuted for saving lives... but the doc is still harrowing and eye-opening and presents its case well enough to be taken seriously. Plus I'm not really sure a doc HAS to be objective. Why go to the trouble to make a movie about something just to get criticized for not representing the side you don't agree with? It's not like non-fiction movies took some Journalistic oath or anything. Anyway, I'm sure there is exploitation and organized crime to some of this (that regulation would help (parable to the drug trade? blaaah too political)) that the movie doesn't get into, but it's intense enough as it is. My takeaway from watching this is DON'T GET KIDNEY FAILURE. |
