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Reviews
Living in the Future's Past (2018)
Love Jeff Bridges in this film
"Much like "The Inside Job" did for the world of finance, "Living in the Future's Past" takes a more intellectual path to address this subject. The goal of this film is to help its audience truly understand the core issues we face as an interconnected world on the brink of something massively devastating. At the most basic level, that core issue is the consumption of energy. Humans need energy to live. Their fuel is food, and it takes energy to grow food, whether it be from more food to feed the animals we eat, fossil fuels to run the tractors and other machinery needed to grow plants, or the very manpower and calorie expenditure it takes for a laborer to produce goods. Everything is energy. Our economy, our currency, microwaves, and penguins, everything can be broken down to surplusses and deficits of energy. This movie also delves into our basic instincts as animals, including the way we think, and why those processes contribute to the ongoing crisis related to climate change. It also investigates how we have a psychological tendency towards tribalism, and how we look for ways to place blame on others to alleviate our own guilt about these issues. It looks at how we have a tendency to search for information that confirms our personal preexisting biases and how we often ignore any alternate ways of thinking that challenge those inclinations." - Thank you LOLO
Breath of Life (2014)
Confronting and Beautiful
I had the privilege of seeing this at the local cinema and loved it. Right at the onset the question is posed "Could our way of life collapse?" and proceeds to show us why it is possible.
What I appreciated most about the film was the deconstruction of ourselves as biological creatures who are mostly unaware that our evolutionary biology often works against us in this modern age. We are living in a matrix of our own making and hardly know how to step off the treadmill.
The voices of the farmers were particularly to the point. "People think there's a machine in the back of the Piggly Wiggly that makes the food!". We are so far removed from the source of our own existence.
While I found the film personally confronting it was beautiful to watch. It's a film that one can watch again and get more each time.
While largely about our own psychology and there are some fantastic scientists in the field of evolutionary biology and psychology woven through the film, Clive Hamilton was particularly wonderful bringing forth the disturbing and possibly little known fact that governments and wealthy backers are seriously considering Geo-engineering. This is an incredibly foolish and frightening prospect if we are unable to change the path we're headed down.
The film is fresh without all the stale cliché's seen in most plodding docs and It doesn't pit one group against another.
I will be definitely making some changes in my life. Bravo and thank-you for putting this out.