Margaret Atwood's visionary non-fiction work Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is the basis for this riveting and poetic documentary on "debt" in its various forms - societal, personal, environmentaI, spiritual, criminal, and of course, economic. Filmmaker Jennifer BaichwaI (Manufactured Landscapes) strikingly interweaves these (sometimes surprising) debtor/creditor relationships: two families in a years-Iong Albanian bIood feud; the BP oiI spilI vs. the Gulf Coast; mistreated FIorida tomato farm workers and their bosses; imprisoned media moguI Conrad Black and the U.S. justice system. With stunning cinematography and insightful commentary from Raj Patel, Louise Arbour and Atwood herseIf, Payback is a brilliant, game-changing rumination on the subject. |