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Portayal Of The Congo: Documentary Analysis
I will say this though, regardless of the documentary’s portayal of the Congo and it’s military groups I still believe that,
Without guns, without money, and without social constructs, our only true power is reduced to the way in which we interact with one another as human beings, and will only extend as far as how much value and regard we place in caring for and upholding our natural environment.
I applaud the documentary for getting more people to pay attention to a worldly cause, and certainly there is credence to many of the facets of this documentary but after looking more into the actual conflicts that took place much of Virunga is very misleading . There is always much more to the (Hollywood idealized) story, and as proactive

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