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A Chance To Focus On The Explorer's Passion

In a case like The Lost City of Z, it's better not to take the details as serious history; instead, be inspired by the drive that propels a courageous few into the wild to discover for all of us.

If you are going to watch The Lost City of Z expecting some sort of Indiana Jones sequel, don't bother.

Based on the best-selling nonfiction book by , the movie moves at a stately pace, with very few action-packed scenes. Perhaps the most animated scene happens during a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, when the protagonist, the British explorer Percy Fawcett, is trying to convince his loud and skeptical peers that there is indeed an advanced civilization lost in the middle of the

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