Love Me Haiti
- 2014
- 14m
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7.5/10
1.2K
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A woman struggles to free her husband after he's kidnapped and trapped in a prison cell. What she encounters would become one of the greatest true stories ever told.A woman struggles to free her husband after he's kidnapped and trapped in a prison cell. What she encounters would become one of the greatest true stories ever told.A woman struggles to free her husband after he's kidnapped and trapped in a prison cell. What she encounters would become one of the greatest true stories ever told.
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Written by 'Johan Allerfeldt'
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Love Me Haiti: Power. Politics. Victimization.
I don't like Love Me Haiti not because it is badly made but because the story is depressing and frustrating. Love Me Haiti is frustrating because it presents you a problem in the world to be angry about and depressing because that the problem is continuing and will never be solved, at least you and I will not live long enough to see it change
The film becomes even more depressing because it is based on a true story and puts more than one local face on the problem and allows us to see the issue through the eyes of the local Haitian people who experienced it at firsthand, every day in their life, with their ancestors initially forced and now descendants easily manipulated to embrace the confined walls of a mood-stabilizing Protestant Church especially fabricated for them, under the disguise of Humanitarian Aid. The people continue to pray a supposedly "God of Miracle", hoping for change. All get buried continuing to hope for change and the ones that realized that there is no change coming do so too late; it is already the day they die. And thus none gets a chance to feel this "taste of change".
And it doesn't matter if the characters are fictional or not. The subject matter in Love Me Haiti begs to be heard throughout the world and the filmmaker has presented it with a compelling venue. It is a film with a style that constantly keeps us engaged. It's hard to find fault with this kind of story, other than being mad at the amalgam of greedy, power-hungry politicians, plaguing the planet Earth with poverty, pollution, diseases, earthquakes, you name it. And all is in the name of Mother Nature. I didn't find myself wholeheartedly loving Love Me Haiti either, but I admire the film because of the filmmaker's philosophy and courage to first blame the Self before blaming the Other.
The emotional truth presents in Love Me Haiti is breath-taking. It grips you from the start in the lives of these these people and never lets you go, not even when the film is over. It's hard to forget this story. My self-consciousness would not let me forget it.
A casserole of geopolitical sauce is what I see cooking underneath the "subtexts" of Love Me Haiti. While many political films have plot holes and silly moments, Love Me Haiti is based on a real story which mirrors what defines us as Humans: Haiti's international debt and poverty is shifted away from historical colonialism and now aggravated by the crippling legacy of imperialism. This is the ultimate theme of what Love Me Haiti is targeting. The nation fails to change and free itself from mental and self-slavery.
I often laughs at people preaching: "We need behavioral change! Behavioral change!" - when in reality they play the villain behind-the-scene! What would you say if I tell you that the famous Tibetan monk Dalai Lama's purpose in life is to betray us with beautiful words like: "Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first..." The film is clearly about the corruption that Haiti was never given a chance to progress to a fully developed country; to a point that many do not know that Haiti existed in the world map until the 2010 Earthquake. Haitian politicians are being manipulated with money; and this is Haiti's new challenge after its independence from colonialism. The problem metamorphoses into an international psycho-political war, which has been destabilizing many other developing countries all over the globe... Haitian politicians are being turned again each other and again their own people... The ones that want to change the country are never given a chance to do something for the country but trapped in some political non-sense or meet Mr. Death via way of bribery to plot assassination.
In brief, Love Me Haiti is a film about Power, Politics, and Victimization. It presents a situation where the same news which informs the people is the same propaganda machine which is used to subsequently brainwash and enslave them, luring the outsider into believing that the problem is an insider problem when it actually grows and re-germinates from international corruption.
And it doesn't matter if the characters are fictional or not. The subject matter in Love Me Haiti begs to be heard throughout the world and the filmmaker has presented it with a compelling venue. It is a film with a style that constantly keeps us engaged. It's hard to find fault with this kind of story, other than being mad at the amalgam of greedy, power-hungry politicians, plaguing the planet Earth with poverty, pollution, diseases, earthquakes, you name it. And all is in the name of Mother Nature. I didn't find myself wholeheartedly loving Love Me Haiti either, but I admire the film because of the filmmaker's philosophy and courage to first blame the Self before blaming the Other.
The emotional truth presents in Love Me Haiti is breath-taking. It grips you from the start in the lives of these these people and never lets you go, not even when the film is over. It's hard to forget this story. My self-consciousness would not let me forget it.
A casserole of geopolitical sauce is what I see cooking underneath the "subtexts" of Love Me Haiti. While many political films have plot holes and silly moments, Love Me Haiti is based on a real story which mirrors what defines us as Humans: Haiti's international debt and poverty is shifted away from historical colonialism and now aggravated by the crippling legacy of imperialism. This is the ultimate theme of what Love Me Haiti is targeting. The nation fails to change and free itself from mental and self-slavery.
I often laughs at people preaching: "We need behavioral change! Behavioral change!" - when in reality they play the villain behind-the-scene! What would you say if I tell you that the famous Tibetan monk Dalai Lama's purpose in life is to betray us with beautiful words like: "Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first..." The film is clearly about the corruption that Haiti was never given a chance to progress to a fully developed country; to a point that many do not know that Haiti existed in the world map until the 2010 Earthquake. Haitian politicians are being manipulated with money; and this is Haiti's new challenge after its independence from colonialism. The problem metamorphoses into an international psycho-political war, which has been destabilizing many other developing countries all over the globe... Haitian politicians are being turned again each other and again their own people... The ones that want to change the country are never given a chance to do something for the country but trapped in some political non-sense or meet Mr. Death via way of bribery to plot assassination.
In brief, Love Me Haiti is a film about Power, Politics, and Victimization. It presents a situation where the same news which informs the people is the same propaganda machine which is used to subsequently brainwash and enslave them, luring the outsider into believing that the problem is an insider problem when it actually grows and re-germinates from international corruption.
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- sercodriguez25327
- Sep 30, 2014
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- Люби меня, Гаити
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- $25,000 (estimated)
- Runtime14 minutes
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