NOTHING LASTS FOREVER

Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.internet, linked from Rotten Tomatoes by Harvey Karten
Director: Jason Kohn
Solid: Dusan Simic, Martin Rapaport, Aja Raden, Tehmasp Printer, Stephen Lussier, John Janik, Melvyn Thomas, Chandu Sheta
Screened at: Critics’ hyperlink, NYC, 11/10/22

“Diamond are Perpetually” will be the and topic of a 1971 James Bond film, however documentary director Jason Kohn begs to disagree with the title. The thought of his “Nothing Lasts Perpetually” is that not even the valuable stone that American girls need from their boyfriends to point out dedication might disappear, a standing image shredded to nightfall just like the Rolex watches bought in Chinatown for 50 bucks or that Gucci knockoff that solely an professional can problem.

Taking us to New York diamond district the place the gems are bought, to Botswana the place they’re mined, Kohn evokes interviews from among the trade leaders, essentially the most colourful of whom is Martin Rapaport who’s on the helm of the pricing organ referred to as the Rapaport Group, a global community of corporations offering added-value companies that assist the event of truthful, clear, environment friendly, and aggressive diamond and jewellery markets. He warns scores of trade colleagues that the costs of diamond are going downhill, whereas a number of different visitors elevate considerations that not solely are synthetics threatening to destroy the trade by undercutting the true factor by ninety %, however that in a extra insidious manner, synthetics are combined in with naturals to make their presence much more tough to detect.

You may name the film one more critique of capitalism, a system of economics that is aware of easy methods to use refined advertising. Advertising and marketing, not rarity, is what makes the gems command prime {dollars}, particularly by telling the those who for those who get a real diamond ring in your engagement, you have got definitive proof that your lover is into you, that he cherishes you. Conversely for those who obtain an artificial and the man lies about it, contemplate the betrothal kaput. (Not raised within the movie is that many semi-precious stones like rubies and emeralds usually are not solely extra economical however are prettier.)

New York scores as a location not just for its famed forty seventh Avenue, which is to diamonds what Chinatown is to eating places however for Roosevelt Island the place we hear a gemologist inform of ways in which may shield the true factor from its artificial cousin—each of that are produced in China and India.

As if the topic weren’t attention-grabbing sufficient, Kohn directs it like a thriller, using music that’s among the many most intrusive that I’ve ever witnessed in need of what dominates superhero motion pictures. At the least when Rapaport is speaking, Kohn respects the person sufficient to permit him to ship his spiels with out making an attempt to cowl the dialogue as if we now have a live performance blaring interference from one other channel.

The movie is on the market to Showtime subscribers.

87 minutes. © 2022 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Movie Critics On-line

Story – B
Performing – B+
Technical – C (music)
Total – B