The Divide

Der Film erzählt die Geschichte von sieben Menschen, die nach einem besseren Leben streben – in Ländern, in denen die 0,1 Prozent an der Spitze so reich sind wie die unteren 90 Prozent zusammen. Durch die Verknüpfung dieser Geschichten entdecken wir, wie die meisten Aspekte unseres Lebens von einem einzigen Faktor gesteuert werden: der Größe des Abstands zwischen Arm und Reich., This documentary tells the story of seven people striving for a better life – in countries where the top 0.1 percent own as much wealth as the bottom percent. Connecting their stories together reveals how most aspects of our lives are controlled by one factor: the size of the gap between rich and poor. Wall Street psychologist Alden wants to make it to the top 1 percent; Leah from Richmond, Virginia works at Kentucky Fried Chicken and just wants to make it through the day; Jen in Sacramento, California is unable to even talk to neighbors in her gated community – they’ve made it clear to her she isn’t “their kind”. By weaving these stories with news archive from 1979 to the present day, The Divide creates a poetic, psychological and tragi-comic picture of how economic division creates social division. The film was inspired by the best-selling book The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.