I love time travel movies. The science here is laughable.
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The Life Equation
(2016)
If you've seen the trailer, you've seen the movie
25 February 2020
This was possibly one of the worst documentaries I've seen. The trailer implies that the movie will be exploring how doctors, scientists, humanitarians, city planners, etc. determine who gets helped, or how we as a society should do this.
We follow a Guatemalan woman with cervical cancer. And sometimes various people in Nepal. This would have been great if these peoples' stories had been influenced at all by ideas or calculations about who should give what money to whom and how much is too much to be used on one person when it could save others.
The camerawork is great. But the story is disjointed. Several times we cut from "Cerencia is doing much better" to "Cerencia's health is bad again" with no time lapse or explanation of how or why.
The DALY (Disability-adjusted life year) is introduced and an equation drawn on the chalkboard by the guy who came up with it. That's it. About 2 sentences dedicated to it. We see an equation later that sort of looks like the DALY and they divide it by 4. There was no explanation of what the "4" represented: people? years? dependents? nope.
And that's literally all of the "Equation" that this "Life Equation" movie shows us.
We follow a Guatemalan woman with cervical cancer. And sometimes various people in Nepal. This would have been great if these peoples' stories had been influenced at all by ideas or calculations about who should give what money to whom and how much is too much to be used on one person when it could save others.
The camerawork is great. But the story is disjointed. Several times we cut from "Cerencia is doing much better" to "Cerencia's health is bad again" with no time lapse or explanation of how or why.
The DALY (Disability-adjusted life year) is introduced and an equation drawn on the chalkboard by the guy who came up with it. That's it. About 2 sentences dedicated to it. We see an equation later that sort of looks like the DALY and they divide it by 4. There was no explanation of what the "4" represented: people? years? dependents? nope.
And that's literally all of the "Equation" that this "Life Equation" movie shows us.
great historical accuracy, but needs a better ending
7 March 2016
Absolutely top notch on historical accuracy and high production value for a small team/low budget film.
You really need to have closed caption available in order to watch this. Too many people talking too fast and too low while speaking an older form of English makes some scenes' dialogue difficult to understand.
The end left everyone in the theater wanting, though.
This film was wonderful at pulling you into the mindset of people from its time-period. It managed to be scary... but in a different way than modern viewers are used to..
You really need to have closed caption available in order to watch this. Too many people talking too fast and too low while speaking an older form of English makes some scenes' dialogue difficult to understand.
The end left everyone in the theater wanting, though.
This film was wonderful at pulling you into the mindset of people from its time-period. It managed to be scary... but in a different way than modern viewers are used to..
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