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The Lost City of Z Review

Exploration. Man's undying and uncompromising will to find the hidden, to seek the unknowable, to prove the impossible possible. This is what Colonel Fawcett did not set out to do, but it became his destiny. The film follows Colonel Fawcett (Charlie Hunman), a British military officer who remains stagnant in the military, a man too old for his position, a man unable to grow in rank. His wife Nina (Sienna Miller), supports her husband in any way, while trying to further herself as a woman in an era that wouldn't allow it. Fawcett travels into what they called Amazonia, to find the border, the end of a river. He goes there on a mission to settle a map issue regarding Bolivia and Brazil, who were on the verge of war for rubber. Find where to draw the line, and the mission would be over. On the way there, Fawcett's guide tells them of a city with roads, buildings of gold, a civilization that was advanced beyond what the white man thought possible. As they r