Johnny Depp stars as photojournalist W. Eugene Smith in 'Minamata.' Read the review:
Johnny Depp in the role of acclaimed photojournalist W. Eugene Smith is the most fortunate thing about, the impassioned account of a real-life environmental tragedy in Japan caused by industrial negligence. The battle waged by the residents of a small coastal town, mostly fishermen and their families, to stop a chemical factory from pouring toxic waste into the sea and the fish they eat makes for a chilling tale of greed and horror, with parallels to the Erin Brockovich story.
At first Gene resists, but his crass indifference is no match for the determination of Aileen , who gets his attention less with her beauty than with a packet of newspaper clippings about what is going on. His batteries abruptly recharged, Gene bounds into the Manhattan offices of, where he demands and gets the green light from Hayes to head to Japan and shoot “the story of the decade.”
But he gets many other heart-breaking shots of teenagers with leg braces and overgrown fingers and elderly women receiving treatment in the Chisso factory hospital.
In contrast, there is an odd reticence about depicting the exact nature of Gene’s relationship with the willing Aileen, who sleeps in the same room but on a separate tatami. No one in the village remarks on this arrangement, and somehow it seems to be part of Gene’s habitual escape from responsibility. Every time there’s a difficulty or someone gets hurt, he’s off on a binge, putting his mission aside to keep from feeling any pain.
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