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jrsampul
Reviews
...All in This Tea (2006)
this is about much more than just tea!
Obviously tea is central to this documentary. What is on screen is a guy looking for "real" tea to import to the USA and encounters with locals, etc. This film documents a quest! A Bang your Head against the Wall quest of a mission to get people (that includes the USA as well as the Chinese) to wake up and recognize what is being lost to the god of efficiency and profits. Along the way, we can almost smell the 500 year old tea bushes on the dirty, foggy mountain slopes that are getting pummeled by progress. We see firsthand what it takes to get a Chinese trained bureaucrat to think (actually think! - he visually strains) about what he is trying to push upon the Yankee peddler. Yes, Hoffman is a bit much but that is what makes a good story, right? Enjoy every minute of this quest to the final frame (hope someone appreciated the ending like I did). Oh, and the music is worthy of a soundtrack CD.