Poetry is a Weapon

"The Terror and the Time is a breathtaking film, one that is so complex in its imagery — so poetic in fact — that I find it difficult to conjure up in words. Images appear first as simple denotation: a torch to light the way, a clock tower, urban slums, sugarcane fields. But then they accrue connotations with each reappearance until the torch is revolution, the clock tower is time, the slum is hades, and the cane fields signify the strength of the Guyanese people."-John Hess, ejumpcut magazine

Playing along with In the Sky's Wild Noise documentary of Walter Rodney and his analysis of Guyanese Worker's struggle. Made three years after his murder in 1980. He talks of the repression of the government of Guyana, their control on the media, and the use of unemployment as a control on political activists.