GFF09: AGE OF STUPID
AGE OF STUPID is the latest in the series of documentaries about how we're ruining the planet and there's not much time to do anything.
Taking the concept a little further than usual, director Franny Armstrong (of MCLIBEL fame) presents the film with a futuristic framing device in which a man watching over an archive of Earth's history (played by the great Pete Postlethwaite) examines the evidence and wonders why we chose to destroy the planet when we had the chance to save it.
The concept's a little more imaginative than normal but delivers more of what we've come to expect. It's going to be a hard task to conquer the prevailing attitude of "it'll be okay in the end" and AGE OF STUPID won't do it without help. That's where the film's clever marketing strategy takes over though, and there will be all sorts of ways to see this film in the coming months.
From a purely cinematic point of view it's a well-made film with an important message but you can never escape the feeling that you're being lectured to. However the aim here is not just to make a decent film, it's to save the planet and you have to applaud it for doing it in such an engaging way. See it.
Taking the concept a little further than usual, director Franny Armstrong (of MCLIBEL fame) presents the film with a futuristic framing device in which a man watching over an archive of Earth's history (played by the great Pete Postlethwaite) examines the evidence and wonders why we chose to destroy the planet when we had the chance to save it.
The concept's a little more imaginative than normal but delivers more of what we've come to expect. It's going to be a hard task to conquer the prevailing attitude of "it'll be okay in the end" and AGE OF STUPID won't do it without help. That's where the film's clever marketing strategy takes over though, and there will be all sorts of ways to see this film in the coming months.
From a purely cinematic point of view it's a well-made film with an important message but you can never escape the feeling that you're being lectured to. However the aim here is not just to make a decent film, it's to save the planet and you have to applaud it for doing it in such an engaging way. See it.
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