EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (2015)

4/13/2016 - Embrace of the Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente) (2015) - 7-/10

Outstanding ambience, with the actors and location shooting making it seem extremely realistic. Felt somewhat like a nature documentary. Very old world feel – like going back in time and witnessing it first hand.

Yes, the cinematic travel was appreciated but I also very much liked the display of these lost cultures. Not the horrors of a "Green Inferno" or a "Cannibal Holocaust", but as sympathetic and genuine. The tale of the destruction of their society and their place on this earth by the arrival of "the white man" felt paramount and accessible.

In the final act, it got a bit preachy and unnecessarily “trippy”. Moving away from soul sojourns being in the mind and made manifest on screen took me a bit out of it.
None the less, a quality film made quite well.