It’s a declaration that also proves instructive to the viewer. Bolognesi and cinematographer Pedro J. Marquez immerse us in the unfamiliar sights, sounds and rituals of the Yanomami, but with an emphasis on both practical routine and spiritual belief. One scene of alligator butchery is no less forensic for being shot in gorgeous, flickering firelight. That it’s followed up with an explanation of the rubble found in the beast’s stomach points to the tribe’s place in a larger ecosystem — a model again endangered by invading prospectors, whose mining results in poisonous mercury exposure, “releasing the smoke of disease.”
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