The Trailer and Website for Ghosts of Cite Soleil
http://www.ghostsofcitesoleil.com/
It follows two gang leaders who took over a slum in Haiti right before Aristide's 2004 forced exit.
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This movie misportrays events in Haiti. It uses CNN and other corporate news as the narrative. It totally ignores the role of the death squads, the US marines in overthrow Aristide, the aid embargo on Aristides government, the Elite/Sweatshop owners role in undermining the government and promoting a crisis. This is some real propaganda if there ever was any.
12:14 AM
i haven't seen it yet.
i was under the impression it really was juts following the story of those gang leaders more than anything. but the they get deep inside areas that other people are not allowed into which will be interesting to see.
9:14 AM
I haven’t seen the film yet, but I was close friends with one of the protagonists, and made dozens of trips to Cité Soleil, the neighborhood portrayed in the film, over the years.
I wrote about some of the issues surrounding the story of the two brothers, among other places, in a recent blog posting of mine, “Ghosts, Bandits and Cité Soleil.” Those interested in can read it here:
http://michaeldeibert.blogspot.com/2007/05/ghosts-bandits-and-cit-soleil.html
5:39 AM
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