Film Analysis Of Blue Gold: World Water Wars

Water. It comprises sixty-six percent of our bodies and aids almost every cell process in the body (100 Amazing Water Facts You Should Know, 2014). The manifold uses of water ranges from life, recreation, to religious needs. The issue is that billion-dollar companies privatized water, are leeching the world’s most abundant resource, and are slowly killing the earth in the process. Blue Gold: World Water Wars gives a glimpse into privatized water companies and the destruction being brought on by them because they believe is a private good. Poor people are left with no clean water or water at all. This film shows how the over mining of groundwater could harm the environment. Another aspect that this film shows is the activism from citizens. It showed how a young teen decided he was going to address Africa’s water sanitation, Bolivian citizens protested against Bechtel’s exorbitant water rates, and Midwestern citizens taking a stand against water companies.

The dialogue the film used was gripping, “Saliva becomes thick. Lumps seems to form in the throat. The tongue swells so much that it squeezes past the jaws. The throat, so swollen, that breathing becomes difficult, creating a terrifying sense of drowning. The eyelids crack, the eyeballs begin to weep tears of blood… skin like purplish grey leather… his lips disappeared as if amputated”. One could only imagine what he looked like. And the fact that he was in the desert accelerated how much he was dehydrated. That scene seems like it was used to illustrate to the audience how easy that could happen