Which is why it’s inspiring to see individuals such as Kurzel, Flanagan and Castles-Lynch, alongside the many experts and local people featured in the film, who are willing to put their careers on the line to protect what’s right: the environment and their livelihoods. It’s a tragic, no-holds-barred account of an industry’s insatiable demand for profit at all costs, and the monstrous power that it holds over government processes. Together, they offer an alarming insight into the devastating environmental impact salmon farms are having on Tasmania’s once pristine waters, world heritage areas, and public health. The documentary film Paradise Lost has been published in tandem with Flanagan’s latest book Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry. But while Seaspiracy tackles the way that humans harm marine life, amidst alarming global corruption, Paradise Lost hones in on the destruction of waterways in a region that has largely gone unnoticed: Tasmania, Australia.Īward-winning filmmaker Justin Kurzel, renowned for his breakout film Snowtown – based on the infamous snowtown barrels murders in and around Adelaide in the 1990s – as well as the mesmerising 2015 adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, has spent the past year working with up-and-coming filmmaker Conor Castles-Lynch, and Man Booker Prize winning author Richard Flanagan, on a deeply personal and harrowing account of the grotesque practices employed by the Tasmanian salmon industry. The recent release of Netflix’s Seaspiracy has made that abundantly clear. By now, it’s pretty obvious that all is not well in our oceans.
0 kommentar(er)
