"Island of the Hungry Ghosts". (2018 documentary)
With all the things going down, I’ve been trying to avoid heavy stuff. But I also like geography and remote places. I saw that it was about Christmas Island and so I started watching it on Amazon.
On the island the rangers watch out for the red crab migration. They shut down roads, build bridges of logs and sticks across roads so the crabs can make it safely across. They care for the crabs.
And on the island there is another migration, refugees who are locked in detention by the Australian government with no hope for release. It, of course, made me think of what’s been happening on our southern border.
A counselor to these refugees, Poh Lin Lee, is recorded in sessions and out of them with her nice family. It shows how this is the first job in which she’s had, that there is no getting better for her patients. She is just a witness to their hopelessness and increasing detachment. There is no hope. The Australian government has been doing it since I think 2006.
