and that's all those poor people have to director andrew liveris is film is about an environmental catastrophe that hit the japanese city of minamata. in the 1950 s. the cheese so chemical corporation's factory released waste laden with organic mercury into the scene thousands of people suffered extreme nerve damage as a result babies were born with severe deformities learning the history of what happened in minamata was so. there's the fact that even happened at all is quite shocking it spared no one and. there was absolutely nothing. that they could do about it at 1st the corporation denied responsibility leading to growing outrage among locals. to sort of. another one of their eugene smith went to japan and documented the events in minamata the victims and the conflict with the company johnny depp provides a hard bitten portrayal of the heavy drinking smith as a man who is obsessed with his work you know you. have a kind of strange fascination with. the smith of the gene smith where he's going through an experience. what he sacrificed to capture those moments you know the captions for those