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Thorium, la face gâchée du nucléaire (2016)
Unexpectedly well rounded documentary about Thorium and MSR (Molten Salt Reactors)
Unexpectedly well rounded discussion about Thorium and MSR (Molten Salt Reactors).
Covers a lot: history, technology, politics, advantages, disadvantages, reasons why not in use today.
I was left very impressed. Did not expect to stumble on such a well researched and complete documentary about Thorium/MSR on TV. I liked this more than Pandoras' Promise, even though I hate it when they translate people who speak English into German/French.
Would recommend this to both someone who has no prior knowledge of the subject as well as to people who've already seen a lot about the topic. I've personally seen lots of videos on the topic, but still learned some things which I had not known at all in this documentary.
Die Wolke (2006)
You will puke if you care about facts and the truth. Otherwise a good movie.
Well made movie with good acting and good directing but I was shocked about the content. Just about EVERYTHING this movie shows from start to finish is demonstrably wrong.
Some examples:
a) in the very first few seconds a voice can be heard telling us how they're powering up a reactor. This supposedly is done within seconds, while in reality going to full power is more like days. Is this important? No, but it sets up the scene for all the BS that follows.
b) after the accident happens a couple of kids drive in a car and - this is so cheesy - one after another state - factually wrong - anti- nuclear-talking-lines. Like that after the Harrisburg/ThreeMileIsland accident cancer rates skyrocketed (read Wikipedia on this, 2 additional cancers in the area are not exactly skyrocketing)
c) everyone runs away and fears "the cloud". I could not believe my eyes when the movie actually shows a dangerous and dark cloud. WTF !!! There is no reason whatsoever why there should be a visible and dangerous cloud (except for random weather, and in the weather shown this ominous cloud doesn't really fit). But I guess it looks good on screen and is really scary.
d) the movie reinforces the (dangerous) stereotype that people suffering from radiation exposure are themselves radiating and therefore dangerous to others! This is for the most part complete and utter BS. Just because you've been exposed you are not a danger to everyone around you and especially not as the movie claims MONTHS after your exposure.
e) the movie claims 38.000 people died and EVERYONE in a 5km radius died from radiation. Considering that after several simultaneous meltdowns in Fukushima the death toll from radiation still stands at ZERO... this just doesn't make any sense and is completely disconnected from reality.
Watch this movie if you like. It's well made but be aware that it's pure propaganda and has NOTHING at all to do with reality. If you consider yourself a member of the reality-based community you will probably have to puke while watching this if you know anything at all about this topic.
Earthlings (2005)
Visually shocking, but somewhat lacking in logic and conclusions
I'm going to go out on a limb here and criticize this movie quite a bit, so if you think a movie concerning a worthy cause must not be criticized please stop reading now :-)
Let's start with the good: Earthlings is a unique and visually shocking insight into how animals are mistreated (this word doesn't do the cruelty justice) in our civilization, with focus on food production, clothing, entertainment and research. It opens ones eyes to condemnable practices beyond anything that you thought could be possible, that however seem to be all too common in those industries. Some might consider the videos shown disgusting, however I'd dare to say that there are humans even capable of this is even more shocking than the visuals of slaughtered animals.
So let's gets to the bad: The movie is in many parts very unspecific, showing atrocity after atrocity, while only rarely explaining why this happens (legal situation? slaughterers doing it for fun?) or alternatives (cost?). It also does for the most part not differentiate in any way between practices in different countries. I'm sure that many of the things shown are illegal and uncommon in some countries of the world. Naming those countries that ALLOW these atrocities by name would have been a very good idea.
The film's general theme therefor is very negative - pretending the ONLY way out of this madness is veganism, COMPLETELY ignoring ANY other ways that could significantly improve the situation (for example regulations from the government). In addition to this, it claims that the despicable torture of these animals is necessary for the industry, even though the movie itself shows in a few cases that "humane" treatment and fairly painless killing of animals is just a question of slightly higher costs.
Then right before in the end, the documentary completely disposes of any logic and reason: While the whole movie's theme is that animals are so much like us in regards to consciousness, pain and their body/brain, it starts to completely deny any relationship between humans and animals once the usage of animals of medical research becomes the topic. I fully agree that some (much?) of this research is morally despicable, but suddenly claiming that there is ABSOLUTELY no benefit to us humans from doing research on lab animals, while at the same time claiming they are suddenly SO very different from us is just totally absurd. Surely those scientists must all be doing those experiments just to inflict pain for their personal pleasure, after all why else would they be doing this research if there is no benefit at all? The whole reasoning presented here in this part of the movie is absurd, lacks any logic and really harms the movie's message by saying to the viewer who notices: "we don't care about truth, we care about animals!".
And then, right before the end, he goes on by listing pretty much every major illness humans face including cancer then blaming them ALL on the fact that we eat meat. Well, I guess the world really is just black and white for those guys...
The movie closes by reminding us that ALL animals used in the areas of food production, cloth production and science die in pain beyond belief. Every single one of them. Yeah, that really what they claim, even though their own movie in a few cases has shown that painless killing is possible and often is not done just because of slightly higher costs. Of course facts are not in line with the movies general message are completely ignored (animals can die very painfully in nature too) and the only "solution" presented here is again: Become a vegan, or you're responsible for this.
To sum it up: Shocking pictures, worth seeing and thinking about. But don't expect a well researched report that gives you numbers or percents or names (virtually no effort is made to show how common some methods are), or even proposes solutions (except veganism). This movie was made to shock and to convince by shock only, objectivity was lost somewhere along the way.
I'd rate it at 6.5 / 10, because even though it does not care about truth and objectivity (which I think are quite important in a documentary) it is still very much worth seeing.
Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
A documentary that fails to document
I'm sorry to say that, but this is actually one of the worst documentaries i have EVER seen.
Due to its name "Darwin's Nightmare" i expected a documentary on problems relating to the Nile perch in Lake Victoria.
What I actually saw in this "documentary" is a loose accumulation of individual stories, most of which have no relation to neither fish nor lake. And for a large part you can hardly call them stories - it's more like some accumulated scenes that lack a meaningful connection...
Why does this movie waste time on: - Showing us non-relevant information on the families of the Russian pilots (several minutes are wasted for example on their private digicam snapshots of wives and daughters) - Mourning the death of an African child who got bitten by a crocodile (as if that could not have happened without the Nile perch) - Showing us about 100 times how planes land and start at the airport - Showing us strange religious events for several minutes - Discussing in detail the life and death of a whore at the airport - Talking to kids about their mothers, fathers - what they work and/or how they died (well, guess what: some died of HIV - who would have guessed that?) Those are just some examples, i could go on for several pages...
This movie is absolutely unfocused, and does not know at all what it wants to tell the viewer. If you have never heard of Africa and have no idea that this continent has Social/Health/HIV/Violence/War problems then this movie might be right for you. If you haven't had your eyes closed for the last decades 90% of what this movie shows won't be new to you - and the way it's presented here will try its best to make you fall asleep.
Perhaps my expectations on this movie were to high, but i really didn't like it even though this is a topic that I would generally find interesting. If this movie wants to show how the poverty is related to the Nile perch, than it perhaps should have spent some time on discussing that matter...