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Scrap Odyssey2010
SCRAP ODYSSEY's title (and Richard Strauss theme) refer to Stanley Kubrick's 2001. But this odyssey is distinctly down-to-earth. Polish documentarians Paweł Ferdek and Łukasz Gutt offer an arresting snapshot of the shifting plates of global trade by focusing on one Kyrgyz truck driver's route across the ancient Silk Road (now a conduit for scrap metal and Chinese manufacturing). The trucker stops for food, drink, repairs and conversation along the way. It becomes clear that China's boom looms as large as the surrounding Tian Shan Mountains for the Kyrgyz people. With China literally absorbing the former Soviet Union's industrial past, Kyrgyzstan finds itself a kind of way station between one superpower’s ruins and another's ascendency. As much an existential road movie as a documentary, SCRAP ODYSSEY bears witness to a region and culture in the throes of transition. "It's important to reach the destination, that’s all," says our driver. But it's unclear what awaits him at the end of his long haul. - Max Goldberg
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The story of a Kyrgyzstan scrap hauler who laments the fall of the soviet union and the rise of china. In the documentary several Kyrgyzstan people speak proudly of the nations natural resources and hope that Kyrgyzstan can once again become powerful. It's a good story and a proper documentary, but for me that story almost became secondary to seeing the wide open, yet mountainous views the filmmakers provided.
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