Liang Zhao directs this documentary about Inner Mongolia's coal mines and iron works. The film focuses on how China's growing industrialism and productivity has altered the environmental and social landscape of the surrounding regions.
J**V
Wow
Behemoth is a powerful and eloquent exposition of how we relentlessly and mercilessly sully and plunder our planet and with a frequent human cost. I'm not sure I ever felt such an acute sense of the attrition and futility of human endeavour. It's one of those movies that burns very slowly but when it finishes you're left dumbfounded and mildly devastated.
D**E
No reason to be cheerful.
This is a bleak film about industrialisation in Mongolia and its effect on the rural population. I suppose it has award winning qualities and will appeal to some but I found it tedious.
L**T
BEHEMOTH
Great documentary almost Art like - like all the really good documentaries.. Visually stunning at times, quite jarring and sometimes deeply moving
E**S
Simply magnificent
How to extract poetry and beauty from hellish chaos! This is a great film, with vital messages about exploitation of people and place.
S**B
Behemoth, Mankind, Destroyer
Behemoth, Mankind, DestroyerWow..This is a horrific piece; but a piece of art, I believe.An elegy, a love poem, to mother nature.A sad sight to behold, but a magnificent portrayal of the evil, greediness that is uprooted the earth.Mysteriously hypnotizing; mystical.Beautiful cinematography, haunting visuals, eerie soundtrack; though the equipment itself plays a soundtrack of it's own: horror. This is a horror symphony of it's own.Though, not a conventional horror; horror, at our own kind; what we can do to ourselves, and our earth.A dreamy, almost ethereal narration.A combination of pure beauty visual, with poetry; help to elevate this to a piece of art; visual poetry.This may well be, most definitely is one of the best films I've seen, this year.A masterpiece.A Gem; exposure, to the unsung heroes of our time.Not for the faint-hearted.I implore you to watch this piece.*Spoiler*One of the last shots, sums it all:'All the sacrifices, transmuted into steel'All the pain, sacrifice, and disease, that the workers will go through, to merely create a piece of steel, transmuted, to go into our cities, where people live happily, with huge wealth, and the people in the mines, have sacrificed themselves, for their steel.....[...]
D**E
a terrible yet clear perception.
utterly devastating. totally without hope. visually and auditorially a work of sheer beauty and poetry. came away humbled and somewhat crippled. the final scene is science fiction 'now.' maybe one of the greatest endings, simple, powerful. a terrible yet clear perception.
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