“The Territory”- A fight to the death [MOVIE REVIEW]
“The Territory,” a documentary directed by Alex Pritz, is not just an inside glimpse of the ongoing fight in Brazil to protect the rights of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people of the Amazon but a larger look at the struggle to preserve the diminishing rainforest, safeguard an endangered people, stop the invasion of this land, and reflect on the effect this will all have on global climate change. In 2018, Jair Bolsonaro, a right wing politician and former military officer, ran his campaign for president of Brazil that included taking back the reserves claimed by the various Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian rainforest. There had always been farmers who, eyeing the riches lying within the rainforest, carved out their own illegal fiefdoms. His platform seemingly gave them official permission to “liberate” the land. An invader rides his motorcycle through the rainforest fire blaze. Photo courtesy of Alex Pritz/Amazon Land Documentary In a classic case of pitting one underclass against another, an association of poor sharecropping farmers who long for their own piece of land is founded. Most of the arable land in Brazil is controlled by a few companies, leaving little affordable…
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