The Raft (2018)
6/10
At sea
24 August 2019
A lot of rather dubious "scientific" experiments took place in the 1970s; including Santiago Genoves's plan to isolate a small group of people on a raft drifting across the Atlantic. It appears he intended the situation to resemble 'Love Island' with added fisticufffs; in fact, the group got on quite amicably, and the only person to behave in a threatening manner was the supposedly impartial scientist, who was disappointed with the lack of action. This documentary tells the story, through interviews with many of the survivors; where there is a shortage of archive film, director Marcus Lindeen films them on a contemporary replica of the raft. But ultimately, there's not much of a story here and there's certainly not much science; today this would be marketed as a holiday experience for the ultimate traveller without the intellectual pretensions, and no-one would think it worth filming.
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