As many Western countries have become richer, they’ve become unhappier; with fearful communities, health problems and declining social cohesion. And as countries have got richer, they have also become more unequal. In The Divide, seven characters battling to cope with the consequences of the growing income gap are woven with archive charting the causes, to paint an engrossing, cinematic and lyrical picture of how economic division creates social division and personal anxiety. The film is inspired by the critically-acclaimed, best-selling book “The Spirit Level” by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.
The Divide: The Spirit Level Documentary
