Darwin's Nightmare Ultimately, the Story Research Proposal

Money is, of course, the primary driving factor in all of the human relationships that are shown in this film. The prostitutes' connection to money should be fairly obvious, as is the idea that the fish are being picked up and shipped for a profit from the large conglomerates outside Africa. In this way, the film clearly shows how intimately economics and politics are tied together. Even the money from the European Union and the World Bank wasn't arriving in this area -- which has been quite poor and destitute for many decades, if not for centuries -- until after it was realized that there was profit to be made from the fish in the lake. The fact that this trade also fuels and funds the delivery of arms to the region, which perpetuates the war and therefore the poverty and depravity of the people living in the area as well. Nothing happens in Tanzania, this film suggests (upholding the general logic upon which our modern system of capitalism can be seen to operate), without money behind it to make it worthwhile for the major players in the area -- namely, not the actual people of Tanzania.This capitalist system has also drastically changed the face of colonialism. According to many scholars, we are living in a postcolonial age; European governments do not hold official power in far flung regions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. But this actually seems to have come at the detriment of at least some of the people in these areas; though the official power (and therefore the aid and infrastructure) of the Western nations has left these parts of the world, Western corporations still retain large monetary interests in these places. Those indigenous to formerly colonized regions are still largely powerless, and receive even less of the benefits of their natural resources......