Example Of Movie Review On Flow For The Love Of Water

The movie starts with the statement of W.H. Auden “Thousands had lived without love, not one without water”. The opening quote has given the movie FLOW, short for “For the Love of Water” a brief message of what to be expected from the documentary movie by 2008 Irene Salina. The documentary movie is a timely tackles the global issue currently faced by everyone – that is the continuously diminishing supply of fresh water and potable water used by humans. Aside from showing how valuable water is for humans to live, it also investigates how water is being wasted and polluted by various activities of man. It illustrates how the greed of man would soon be the cause of the extinction of human kind. Big corporations like Vivendi, Nestle and Coca Cola are investigated by the film on their water use and their contributions to the pollution of earth’s water supply.
The movie starts building the interest of the viewer by showing scenes that demonstrates the importance and lack of access of water in the lives of people mostly from the third world countries. It starts with the statistics of the number of people, especially babies that dies every year due to the lack of fresh water to drink. It also shows how the greed and pollution caused multinational companies affects the water sources of mankind what water pollutants came from them. The opening scene is of the beautiful water sources is a complete contrast to the following scenes showing things that common people need to do just to have access to water and the tour of water –related disasters which are all connected to the abuse of human, the no care attitude of man to the earth and to the sources of water, and the privatization of the most of the water sources living most ordinary people with no potable water to freely use. It shows a contradiction between big companies amassing billons from privatizing the water sources and rising number of people living without access to potable water.
Governmental efforts of providing clean water to is citizens are also shown, however, the movie also points out that if these efforts were done correctly, a lot of change could have been done already. Mostly, the ideas of people who really care and are ready to provide simple yet economical solutions to the dilemma are just frustrated by the support of the government to privatize the most vital water sources.
One can appreciate the efforts done by Salina to travel to different far-flung areas of the world to take actual footages of how people fight for water to be able to live, how people waste water and how companies pollute and privatize the water sources. The footages have a strong impact on the delivery of the movies message.
The movie is an eye opener especially people who have taken for granted the availability of water in their area. Also, it serves as a wake-up call that makes one realize that although water is an essential necessity in all living things, no one can be sure about the safety of the water they drink. Although the movie implies that it should be readily available for all citizens of the world, it’s time to face the fact that safe water to drink would never be readily available for everyone for free in these times since without passing through screening, the water we drink is already polluted with radioactive elements.