Big Men (film)

Big Men is a 2014 documentary film produced and directed by Rachel Boynton. It examines corruption in the oil industries of Africa. The film was released on March 14, 2014, to critical acclaim.

Big Men
Directed byRachel Boynton
Produced byRachel Boynton
Brad Pitt
Music byNathan Larson
CinematographyJonathan Furmanski[1]
Edited bySeth Bomse[1]
Production
company
Boynton Films Production
Distributed byAbramorama (United States)[2]
Release date
March 14, 2014[3]
Running time
99 minutes

Production

The crew filmed between 2007 and 2011, in Ghana and Nigeria.[4]

Reception

Big Men was acclaimed by critics. It holds a 90/100 on Metacritic[2] and a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[5] In The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote that "this cool and incisive snapshot of global capitalism at work is as remarkable for its access as for its refusal to judge."[6] Alan Scherstuhl of The Village Voice opined that the film "is no simple screed against tick-like profiteers growing fat on malnourished hosts," but instead "a richly detailed portrait".[7] In The Washington Post, Stephanie Merry argued, "Boynton’s most impressive feat in 'Big Men' is how she takes an impossibly convoluted scenario, makes sense of it and tells a story that's riveting on its own but also serves as a parable about greed and human nature."[8]

gollark: This seems worrying. I mean, I'm not in America, but it's still worrying.
gollark: There's also insect-based food, which apparently also reduces resource use.
gollark: Vegan food companies?
gollark: But who would pay these vegans?
gollark: I've heard it said that it might be more effective for vegans/vegetarians to present not eating meat as an opportunity to do good people may not be aware of, instead of presenting eating meat as EVIL to people who're already doing it.

References
  1. "Big Men The Movie: Filmmakers". Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  2. "Big Men Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  3. "Rachel Boynton". Variety. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  4. "Big Men The Movie". Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  5. "Big Men (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  6. Catsoulis, Jeannette (March 14, 2014). "Oil Money, and Where It Flows". The New York Times. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  7. Scherstuhl, Alan (March 12, 2014). "Big Men Reveals How the World of Oil Actually Turns". The Village Voice. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  8. Merry, Stephanie (March 27, 2014). "'Big Men' movie review: Pandora's Box filled with black gold in Africa". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 7, 2017.


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