EPTOn August 12 2013 23:36 prplhz wrote:
Director Mads Brügger has some interesting documentaries. What he does is highly questionable but I'm pretty sure I have never seen anyone else do anything like it so everybody should really give it a try.
First one I'm going to recommend is Ambassadøren (en. "The Ambassador"). This documentary is about Mads buying a diplomatic passport from corrupt officials in the Ivory Coast (I don't know if it's illegal to buy them but it surely isn't legal to sell them) and then he goes to the Central African Republic and attempts to set himself up as a guy who can smuggle illegal diamonds out of the country using his status as a diplomat to bypass customs. During all of this he gets to talk to a bunch of interesting people who he secretly films.
Here is the leading sentences from Roger Ebert's review of the movie:
At what point did I realize "The Ambassador" was an actual documentary, and not a fraud? Perhaps when I realized that everyone in the film was just as dishonest, venal and corrupt as they seemed — including the director.
I like this quote because it shows that while "The Ambasador" is a documentary, it's hard to believe it. Both because of the subject matter but also because of how Mads Brügger and his team carries it out. Everything is real and everything is fake and corrupt.
Det Røde Kapel (en. "The Red Chapel") is a movie in which Mads Brügger and two danish comedians of korean ethnicity (one of them a spastic) goes to North Korea (yes, THE North Korea) posing as a theater group on a mission for cultural exchange. It very quickly becomes evident that cultural exchange in North Korea only goes one way.
Mads Brügger does some highly questionably things in this documentary too, it becomes pretty clear that he is actively manipulating one of the comedians and he subtly ridicules everything going on. The official who was supposed to keep track of them while they were in North Korea reportedly went missing after it was revealed that it was all a big joke on North Korea.
Director Mads Brügger has some interesting documentaries. What he does is highly questionable but I'm pretty sure I have never seen anyone else do anything like it so everybody should really give it a try.
First one I'm going to recommend is Ambassadøren (en. "The Ambassador"). This documentary is about Mads buying a diplomatic passport from corrupt officials in the Ivory Coast (I don't know if it's illegal to buy them but it surely isn't legal to sell them) and then he goes to the Central African Republic and attempts to set himself up as a guy who can smuggle illegal diamonds out of the country using his status as a diplomat to bypass customs. During all of this he gets to talk to a bunch of interesting people who he secretly films.
Here is the leading sentences from Roger Ebert's review of the movie:
At what point did I realize "The Ambassador" was an actual documentary, and not a fraud? Perhaps when I realized that everyone in the film was just as dishonest, venal and corrupt as they seemed — including the director.
I like this quote because it shows that while "The Ambasador" is a documentary, it's hard to believe it. Both because of the subject matter but also because of how Mads Brügger and his team carries it out. Everything is real and everything is fake and corrupt.
Det Røde Kapel (en. "The Red Chapel") is a movie in which Mads Brügger and two danish comedians of korean ethnicity (one of them a spastic) goes to North Korea (yes, THE North Korea) posing as a theater group on a mission for cultural exchange. It very quickly becomes evident that cultural exchange in North Korea only goes one way.
Mads Brügger does some highly questionably things in this documentary too, it becomes pretty clear that he is actively manipulating one of the comedians and he subtly ridicules everything going on. The official who was supposed to keep track of them while they were in North Korea reportedly went missing after it was revealed that it was all a big joke on North Korea.
Seen both of these and they got me completely hooked and i had to watch them till the end. They are very surreal the both of them and he finds himself in some very strange situations including an in prompto appearance during a North Korean military parade in honour of the great leader.
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I love watching documentaries ! Especially when i'm a little high.. 
