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...
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