Confounding Island

Orlando Patterson returns to Jamaica, his birthplace, to reckon with its history and culture. Locals claim to be some of the world’s happiest people, and their successes in music and athletics are legendary. Yet the country remains violent and poor. In Jamaica the dilemmas of globalization and postcolonial politics are thrown into stark relief.

Orlando Patterson se intoarce in Jamaica, locul sau de nastere, pentru a tine cont de istoria si cultura sa. Localnicii pretind ca sunt unii dintre cei mai fericiti oameni din lume, iar succesele lor in muzica si atletism sunt legendare.