What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (2018) Poster

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8/10
Very emotional
tom_s_banks13 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
What you gonna do when the worlds on fire was a very emotional piece of art that really though I had never experienced this first hand was a very deep piece of work.

The film not revealed to us before was shot with no music, no colour and no questions as i believe what the director was trying to do was emotionally detach us from the thought that this is a documentary. Therefore making it very lifelike.

My one problem with the documentary there was no beginning middle or end. Which I would have been fine with if they didn't introduce characters so late into the story. Another 10 mins of run time would have made all the difference.

I would recommend this event to anyone who likes the thrill of a suprise and gets to see an amazing selection of films, especially like this.
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5/10
A doc lover who really struggled with this one.
teacher-darren18 August 2019
As an Aussie who lived in New Orleans for about five months in 2015, I was very excited to see this at the Melbourne International Film Festival.

However, I did struggle to engage with any of the participants the film follows and felt that there was nothing really driving the film and it felt quite aimless.

The black and white photography is crisp and sharp and it creates a sombre, stiffling effect.

We follow members of the black community in different parts of NOLA from black panthers at meetings and working on the streets with the homeless to a woman under pressure to keep her bar running to two young brothers roaming their neighbourhood.

There just wasn't enough going on story wise to keep me engaged in the characters lives.
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1/10
Two words...
baoboa10 April 2021
Buffalo Soldier. Period. End of story. Now scram ya hypocrite.
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