{"id":6670,"date":"2013-05-22T13:17:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T17:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6670"},"modified":"2014-05-26T23:45:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T03:45:46","slug":"film-big-men-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6670","title":{"rendered":"Film: Big Men (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Genre: Documentary \/ Hot Docs 2013<\/p>\n

Synopsis: A small American oil exploration firm is affected by political and internal corporate struggles after a large off-shore oil deposit is discovered in Ghana.<\/p>\n

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Writer\/ director \/ producer Rachel Boynton follows the same blend of fly-on-the-wall cinematography with fictional dramatic editing in Our Brand is Crisis<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>] (2006) to create this initially engrossing cautionary tale of a small U.S. oil company, Kosmos Energy, eventually being overwhelmed by political and corporate power struggles when a massive deposit of off-shore oil is discovered in Ghana\u2019s Jubilee Fields.<\/p>\n

The characters are set up neatly, the conflicts are contrasted with the ultimate nightmare scenario in Nigeria (rampant corruption and greed has effectively ruined the country\u2019s social fabric), but Big Men<\/strong> loses some of its energy when the focus shifts to the ousting of Kosmos\u2019 CEO Jim Musselman, the project\u2019s unwavering supporter who\u2019s sidelined by his second in command after a messy putsch. Greed is clearly the film\u2019s theme, and Boynton\u2019s close access to her colourful subjects captures a bevy of alligator smiles from figures in Ghana and the U.S., but the film\u2019s most energetic and prescient material comes from the Nigerian sequences, which offer the drama and sharp commentary lacking in Big Men<\/strong>\u2019s finale.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2013 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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IMDB <\/a>— Composer Filmography<\/a> — Hot Docs 2013 Entry<\/a><\/p>\n

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Return to: Home \/\u00a0Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews \/ B . Film: Very Good\/ DVD Transfer: \u00a0n\/a \/ DVD Extras: n\/a \/ Label: n\/a \/\u00a0\/ Region: n\/a \/\u00a0\/\u00a0Released: n\/a \/ Genre: Documentary \/ Hot Docs 2013 Synopsis: A small American oil exploration firm is affected by political and internal corporate struggles after a large off-shore oil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[2050,461,2816,2048],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1JA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6676,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670\/revisions\/6676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}