Sue Kim’s film about South Korea’s underwater fishers has everything from nuclear pollution to sexism to cover, but sticks to bland reportage
here is an important subject at the centre of this documentary from Korean-American film-maker Sue Kim, co-produced by Malala Yousafzai, but the film is finally let down by a bland and supercilious way of celebrating the women involved as a picturesque eco-feminist folk tradition, without actually tackling the hard questions their work is raising. They are thehave been swimming down to the ocean floor to harvest seafood.
The film finally, blandly veers away from the whole question in favour of images of haenyeo smilingly doing their work, for all the world as if the Fukushima disaster didn’t happen. (The Japanese government appear to
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