It seems like most people loved this film as much as I did. Yet, the negative reviews are so dismissive of the film. It did not meet their expectations and that is the point of the film. Because of our expectations, we not only have ruined the earth and the lives of indigenous people, but are ruining our own lives. The film is unique in that it explores the idea of letting go. It shows a family on a journey of self-discovery that they were able to film. They do not center their own experience but the knowledge of the wisdom keepers and this time, their knowledge states: we are dying out and what we try to pass onto the children may or may not prevail, and even may not last. It is a film about how long they have striven to hold the world together for the rest of humanity. It is about the desolation many of them have been thrown into by the desires we in the first world have been chasing. It is about the wounded soul yearning to be healed by a return to nature that we will not choose and ultimately may be compelled by loss to revisit. It made me ponder these things. It allowed me to ponder the beauty and wisdom of these elders. It helped me to see how all aware people are struggling to join together in consciousness in a local way to live a real life freed from the mass mind of consumption, industrial medicine, and commercialized identity. One day the people who are bored with this film will no longer have to see any such thing because the one's who are trying to show us how to correct our course are still largely being ignored or worse, minimized and dismissed. Please do allow this film to help you to correct your course. If it cannot help us to save the world, can it help you to save yourself? I think it takes a giant step in that direction.
Review of Down to Earth
