Border
by Chris Burgard
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Actor: n/aDirector: Chris Burgard
Brand: Repnet LLC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-11-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Passion River
DVD Reviews of Border
DVD Review: Heavily slanted, but has its moments
Summary: 3 Stars
This documentary is presented from the Minuteman perspective so "Minuteman" might be a better title. There are, however, attempts to show migrants as human. Activists for immigrants, on the other hand, are set up to seem foolish, ignorant, and misguided. The filmmakers could have presented more compelling pro-migrant or pro-immigration perspectives because the issues is not so clear cut. Coyotes are presented as devils incarnate and federal agents as jack-booted thugs, though it's nice to meet some actual border agents. Some of the footage attempts to make drama out of the mundane and it falls flat. Stylistically, it would be a stronger documentary if it were 20-30 minutes shorter.
The filmmaker is quite likable; he comes across well. And it is interesting to get a rich sense of the motivations and worldviews of Minutemen. Also, there are some helpful maps, diagrams, and statistics. I appreciated the limited attempts to present a guest worker program as part of the solution, but advocating securing the border and building a wall is too simplistic and it is made to seem the result of a lack of political will, but doing so is incredibly complicated and expensive to do so. People want to get in and they're going to figure out a way to get in, they're going to tear down fences, engage in riskier and more expensive attempts.
Finally, it's a shame that there's is no mention of the decriminalization or legalization of some drugs, which would take the profits away from the drug cartels and which is really the only hope for reducing the devastating impact cartels have at the border. If people in the U.S. could legally grow 1-2 marijuana plants in their homes it would do more to secure the border than bringing in the military.
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