One of My All-Time Favorites! | The Emerald Forest

Much on life | The Emerald Forest | Powers Boothe, Meg Foster

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	• The Emerald Forest Powers Boothe, Meg Foster MGM (Video & DVD), 2001 average customer review:based on 49 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Useful in the search of indigenous identity

I've shown this film over and over to indigenous groups in Panama, as it conveys extremely well how the spiritual world of american indians is unknown to western-eurocentric cultures, and taught as "savage" or "un-civilized" to indians who end up convinced that their culture has no value. In a world where indians behold some of the keys to the planet's las chance of survival, this film is a good way to restore indigenous culture's place of honor.

One of My All-Time Favorites!

I have loved this movie since it came out. I have yet to order the DVD, but will soon. I have trouble with anyone not seeing the value in this film. Yes, you have to suspend disbelief in order to "get" it. But it is a spectacularly beautiful movie with great acting and many messages for the human soul, including that we are so much more than our technology. I have never tired of watching it in all these years, and doubt that I will in the future. If you have a heart, love nature and believe in the human spirit, you will love this film!

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Much on life

Taken literally or metaphorically, this is a very beautiful, moving and inspirational film with so many lessons on life.

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ELLOS AUN SABEN LO QUE NOSOTROS YA OLVIDAMOS...

Un mundo en donde se valora la naturaleza, se respeta la fauna, se cuida la flora, donde el hombre sabe que es parte de un equilibrio natural, su mayor tesoro al cual venera, ama y protege a toda costa...eso es lo que nos enseña la "Gente Invisible", indigenas que viven en la selva misma de Brasil; por otro lado, nosotros, los "Hombres Termita", supuestamente civilizados, dedicandonos a destruir SU MUNDO...NUESTRO MUNDO, tan empecinados en la tecnologia que no nos importa destruir el medio ambiente y aun a costa de exterminar a estas personas que han aprendido a adaptarse tan armoniosamente a su medio natural; tribus indigenas donde se valora a la familia, la pareja, la hermandad, el hogar, las tradiciones y a los ancianos... aun a los que nos dejaron, cosas que en la sociedad de hoy ya ni se toma conciencia debido al estilo de vida agitado de las "civilizaciones"; uno mira esta pelicula y se pregunta: ¿QUIEN ES VERDADERAMENTE EL SALVAJE Y QUIEN ES EL CIVILIZADO?¿Que es mejor, la riqueza y libertad de la selva ("El Centro del Mundo" como ellos le llaman) o La carcel de edificios de concreto (el "Mundo Muerto" como le llaman ellos) a lo que llamamos "progreso"?

UNA PELICULA CON UNA GRAN CONCIENCIA ECOLOGICA Y MENSAJE DE AMOR A NUESTRA TIERRA.

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From the director of Hope & Glory comes a "wildly ambitious parable [that] transports us to a singularly imaginative realm" (Boxoffice). The Emerald Forest is "an exotic and erotic daymare replete with one lushly enrapturing scene after another" (Daily News)! For ten years, engineer Bill Markham (Powers Boothe) has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son (Charley Boorman) is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.

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