Film Summary
In the documentary “Life and Debt”, the author, Stephanie Black, uses her native country Jamaica as a case study to focus on the problematic economy of her country and how the country's semi-permanent obligation to international disposal organizations have contributed to the erosion of native agriculture and business, as well as interviewing everybody from United Nations agency executives, to a former Jamaican Prime Minister, a university economic expert, Rastafarians, and village farmers as well as more. The documentary makes the viewer responsive to political and economic realities facing several corners of the world and it causes an individual to take into account their small roles within the world economy and world community …show more content…
You visit towns and see these people as they are having fun. They determine a trend and they try to follow this trend. People may think that they don’t have any trouble but they have nothing to do about it, because someone or something has caused them to live in such horrendous way. The Jamaicans will copy the tourists because they want to be a tourist themselves – to feel liberated. I personally relate to such experience as I have family that lives in Lebanon, as refugees in refugee camps. Most people would think that those refugees are happy with their lives, as they have a roof above their heads but in reality they aren’t, conflicts arise between two gangs, and the safety of the innocent is in danger. In addition, Jamaica has a bad infrastructure, for example, every meal comes from Miami for tourists, as well as the crime rate is very high in Jamaica and therefore there are big security measures so that tourists feel safe. Later on, free zone emerged. Foreign investors open new work zone for native people but actually investors want to exploit work power of native people. Native people work
In the documentary “Life and Debt”, the author, Stephanie Black, uses her native country Jamaica as a case study to focus on the problematic economy of her country and how the country's semi-permanent obligation to international disposal organizations have contributed to the erosion of native agriculture and business, as well as interviewing everybody from United Nations agency executives, to a former Jamaican Prime Minister, a university economic expert, Rastafarians, and village farmers as well as more. The documentary makes the viewer responsive to political and economic realities facing several corners of the world and it causes an individual to take into account their small roles within the world economy and world community …show more content…
You visit towns and see these people as they are having fun. They determine a trend and they try to follow this trend. People may think that they don’t have any trouble but they have nothing to do about it, because someone or something has caused them to live in such horrendous way. The Jamaicans will copy the tourists because they want to be a tourist themselves – to feel liberated. I personally relate to such experience as I have family that lives in Lebanon, as refugees in refugee camps. Most people would think that those refugees are happy with their lives, as they have a roof above their heads but in reality they aren’t, conflicts arise between two gangs, and the safety of the innocent is in danger. In addition, Jamaica has a bad infrastructure, for example, every meal comes from Miami for tourists, as well as the crime rate is very high in Jamaica and therefore there are big security measures so that tourists feel safe. Later on, free zone emerged. Foreign investors open new work zone for native people but actually investors want to exploit work power of native people. Native people work