SICK BIRDS DIE EASY... Sick Birds is a difficult and bewildering documentary which beckons one to think deeper about all we have seen. If the Iboga plant, so much sought after is supposed to be some sort of Utopia, well then, be that as it may! But the proof is that it does exist and that many have benefited from its effects... The documentary is a trip in itself. The narration by the writer/director seems sincere and spiritual as one can get, but it may be just as easily a bunch of sanctimonious nonsense. After all, we are dealing with characters who are truly mad with a state of insanity perhaps not far off, or so one gathers from all that evolves in the film. The constant allusion to REALITY and what, in fact, it truly is becomes somewhat suspect in a discerning viewer's eye! I think this is a fair assessment. Is the African troop only out for a simple joyride? It certainly seems so as they say one thing and mean another. Or they do things and then as quickly repudiate it all as nothing but hogwash, my own word for what I saw in the doc. You enjoy the film but then feel you have been somewhat had as what you've witnessed on screen is somewhat bogus, not what you expected from the DOC... the characters of the documentary begin to feel as phony as we initially felt they were sincere. And then we learn the final outcome of it all. This is a tricky film which can drive you crazy... but along the way we still tend to enjoy it. It's up to the individual viewer to make up his/her own mind as to the VALIDITY OF EVERYTHING! Since so many feel this is ESSENTIAL viewing, my warning would be... "See at your own risk!"
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