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Uncivilized (2019)

★★★ — Uncivilized (2019)

Uncivilized is a self-shot, self-directed documentary made by Michael Lees, a one-man production in every meaningful sense, filmed on the Caribbean island of Dominica for the micro-budget outfit Studio Anansi. Lees, who is also the sole on-screen subject, carried his own camera into the Dominican forest with survival equipment and religious texts, with no crew and no conventional production infrastructure behind him. The film's central conceit, voluntary withdrawal from modern life, was already well-trodden territory by 2019, drawing obvious comparisons to Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild and the broader back-to-nature documentary tradition. What separates it from that tradition is circumstance rather than design: in September 2017, Category 5 Hurricane Maria struck Dominica directly, becoming one of the most destructive Atlantic storms on record and forcing the entire country into the kind of survival situation Lees had chosen voluntarily.

A-Z World Movie Tour Dominica This was a fantastic documentary by amateur filmmaker Michael Lees. He sets off into the jungle for 6 months in order to detach from civilization and find something within himself. It starts off feeling alot like Into the Wild and it almost feels like something Christopher McCandless would have made had he been in this age of technology. Then... all of a sudden... a category 5 hurricane absolutely decimates Dominica and the journey is cut in half. Now it's about returning to civilization and helping his family rebuild their homes. Really eye opening look into the effects of global warming and climate change.

Rating: ★★★ | Year: 2019 | Watched: 2025-06-10

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