The Movie Forums Chain Challenge

Right away Im surprised that this 2015 movie is in Black & White. Ok.....and 5 minutes in I realize it was a stroke of genius due to budget
constraints. B&W can hide what what everseeing HD color brings forth, and this low budget production now wont come off as cheap, the storytellings
unhindered. The production companies responsible for this movies creation, they were all listed before the film, and they kept coming, and coming.
Around a dozen. I immediately Google and find out "The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and
Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic
Yakruna plant."

Ah, white scientist is dying and theyve come to a shaman who is the last of his tribe. Not only does he not like whites, but theres bad blood between
the shaman & indian helping him there, different tribe prejudice, very Hatfield & McCoy. Creeepy credits with B&W slithering snakes. Ooook, theres a
timeskip, and now the shaman many years older is approached by another young white scientist, wanting to ask about the events that transpired before.
Young scientist seems to want to find the same plant the first one was needing many years before. I found this is a 40 year timeskip, the shaman much
older doesnt remember where it is, but will go with him to find it. The old shaman says he has no memory now, and is hollow. Probably going senile,
and he is horrified whats happening to himself.

Right away Im surprised that this 2015 movie is in Black & White. Ok.....and 5 minutes in I realize it was a stroke of genius due to budget
constraints. B&W can hide what what everseeing HD color brings forth, and this low budget production now wont come off as cheap, the storytellings
unhindered. The production companies responsible for this movies creation, they were all listed before the film, and they kept coming, and coming.
Around a dozen. I immediately Google and find out "The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and
Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic
Yakruna plant."

Ah, white scientist is dying and theyve come to a shaman who is the last of his tribe. Not only does he not like whites, but theres bad blood between
the shaman & indian helping him there, different tribe prejudice, very Hatfield & McCoy. Creeepy credits with B&W slithering snakes. Ooook, theres a
timeskip, and now the shaman many years older is approached by another young white scientist, wanting to ask about the events that transpired before.
Young scientist seems to want to find the same plant the first one was needing many years before. I found this is a 40 year timeskip, the shaman much
older doesnt remember where it is, but will go with him to find it. The old shaman says he has no memory now, and is hollow. Probably going senile,
and he is horrified whats happening to himself.

Going back in time again, and Karamakate the shaman has brought the supposedly sick scientist, who I assume he "coked up" to a village that knows him. The shaman must be a big deal, his nickname is the World Mover.

Well the scientist must be cured or something cause he and his guide are performing a song n dance for the villagers. The days before television..... Karam the shaman puts a tube up the scientists nose and must be blowing some powerful medicine....but effects must be temporary. I thought it was cocaine but he did it before he went to sleep too. Maybe it was a downer powder, poor guys gonna be strung out like Elvis!

Oop! The happy villagers wanted to keep his compass as hes leaving for the morning. Scientist gave them a strong talking to. Karam is mad at him for acting so white. Scientist is toting so much stuff the guide & Karam think him nuts. Its funny cause 40 years i the future he was scolding the scientist then for hauling so much stuff too. Very well paced film. Ohp! Hes getting his nostril tube again. Damn these actors have heart, you can see it blow out of the guys other nostril.

Theyve come to a graveyard in the amazon and the guide looks extremely shook up. Then he sees its the doing of rubber slavers. After trashing their setup, a one armed mutilated slave comes out of nowhere freaking out wanting to be killed. He almost does kill him cause he knows theyll torture him to death. The guide too was a rubber slave once. This is set in 1909, the timeskip goes forward 40 years, I looked it up.

Going back in time again, and Karamakate the shaman has brought the supposedly sick scientist, who I assume he "coked up" to a village that knows him. The shaman must be a big deal, his nickname is the World Mover.

Well the scientist must be cured or something cause he and his guide are performing a song n dance for the villagers. The days before television..... Karam the shaman puts a tube up the scientists nose and must be blowing some powerful medicine....but effects must be temporary. I thought it was cocaine but he did it before he went to sleep too. Maybe it was a downer powder, poor guys gonna be strung out like Elvis!

Oop! The happy villagers wanted to keep his compass as hes leaving for the morning. Scientist gave them a strong talking to. Karam is mad at him for acting so white. Scientist is toting so much stuff the guide & Karam think him nuts. Its funny cause 40 years i the future he was scolding the scientist then for hauling so much stuff too. Very well paced film. Ohp! Hes getting his nostril tube again. Damn these actors have heart, you can see it blow out of the guys other nostril.

Theyve come to a graveyard in the amazon and the guide looks extremely shook up. Then he sees its the doing of rubber slavers. After trashing their setup, a one armed mutilated slave comes out of nowhere freaking out wanting to be killed. He almost does kill him cause he knows theyll torture him to death. The guide too was a rubber slave once. This is set in 1909, the timeskip goes forward 40 years, I looked it up.

Uh oh. Karams gotta hair up his butt at the scientist, doesnt trust his true intention finding this root, and wont go. Now hes getting into that old pissing match with the guide who was a slave. Scientist is sticking up for himself & the guide, and giving it as good as hes getting in the argument. Hes showing his books, notes to Karam, reminds me of Dunbars notebook from Dances With Wolves. Karams impressed by a particular picture from the scientists dream, and is back onboard. Really fresh to have a bigoted shaman who is ornery, such is real life compared to movies. (This is based on true events)

Ah ha! Karamakate says he had the exact same dream as the scientist. He wants to have them both take something together. I feel like Im about to see a smartened up version of a scene from Altered States (great film). Scientist quickly throws it up, and Karams telling him to drink more Hm. Morning time, nothing happened.

Oook, Karams telling him he couldnt see/hear what he did, so hes gonna have to do something else now. Scientist reinforces hes dying from a disease, which is why he wants to find the root. Says the spirits say theres something other than his disease out to kill him, and that the Shaman should protect him.

Ha, the two indians are laughing at the scientists romantic love letter. I guess Amazonian indians are manly men Wow when something funny happens, Karam really loses his s#t laughing , too much isolation. Now theyve come to a more structured...place where theres some wooden structures, kids and a priest. Karams wary. The priest busts out a rifle thinking theyre looking for rubber, damn that rubbber must have been like Blood Diamond around there back then.

Whhaaaaat?! Karamakate quoted scripture to the priest! Priest was stunned. Thats what broke the ice though, hes taking them in. Looks like an orphanage.

Uh oh. Karams gotta hair up his butt at the scientist, doesnt trust his true intention finding this root, and wont go. Now hes getting into that old pissing match with the guide who was a slave. Scientist is sticking up for himself & the guide, and giving it as good as hes getting in the argument. Hes showing his books, notes to Karam, reminds me of Dunbars notebook from Dances With Wolves. Karams impressed by a particular picture from the scientists dream, and is back onboard. Really fresh to have a bigoted shaman who is ornery, such is real life compared to movies. (This is based on true events)

Ah ha! Karamakate says he had the exact same dream as the scientist. He wants to have them both take something together. I feel like Im about to see a smartened up version of a scene from Altered States (great film). Scientist quickly throws it up, and Karams telling him to drink more Hm. Morning time, nothing happened.

Oook, Karams telling him he couldnt see/hear what he did, so hes gonna have to do something else now. Scientist reinforces hes dying from a disease, which is why he wants to find the root. Says the spirits say theres something other than his disease out to kill him, and that the Shaman should protect him.

Ha, the two indians are laughing at the scientists romantic love letter. I guess Amazonian indians are manly men Wow when something funny happens, Karam really loses his s#t laughing , too much isolation. Now theyve come to a more structured...place where theres some wooden structures, kids and a priest. Karams wary. The priest busts out a rifle thinking theyre looking for rubber, damn that rubbber must have been like Blood Diamond around there back then.

Whhaaaaat?! Karamakate quoted scripture to the priest! Priest was stunned. Thats what broke the ice though, hes taking them in. Looks like an orphanage.