Darwins Nightmare (2004)

Documentary about how *&%#- up Tanzania is. The films title is a reference to how the introduction of foreign fish into Lake Victoria threatens to destroy the natural eco-system, and how the precious fish based economy has saddled that nation with all sorts of unintended human fall-out as well. The major fishing companies are run by Indians, who pay Russians to fly out the fish. The Russians and others sleep with the prostitutes, many of whom become prostitutes after their husbands die in the dangerous fishing industry. The prostitutes get AIDS and die and many of there children turn to drugs. Preachers come and try to save the children, but their opposition to condemns helps spread the AIDS that kill the mothers. It’s all a very sad tale, rendered more so by the rather human portraits we get of various business men, pilots, prostitutes, orphans, and even a rather intriguing former solder turned security guard. We may now never get to see an anti-creationist documentary by this title, but the shear relevance of this Darwin’s Nightmare more then makes up for it. Thumbs Up.