REVIEW: The Age of Stupid (Cert PG)
Although we we have seen so many documentaries warning of the dire consequences of global warming, The Age of Stupid (Cert PG) finds a new and effective way to get the message across..
Director Franny Armstrong, who made McLibel, constructs a fictional framework of having Pete Postlethwaite as a survivor of the devastated world of 2055 and curator of an archive of the world's music, film and literature. Lamenting that "we could have saved ourselves, but we didn't," he proceeds to show snatches of film from our own time to illustrate our folly.
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Whether because of this device or not there are some sequences that really hit home, especially the experience of a young woman living in Nigeria beside a Shell refinery which, while generating great wealth to others, has left them to scrape a living in a polluted landscape and sea where any fish caught have to be cleaned up with washing powder.
Nearer home we see a wind farm developer being driven to despair by a nimby campaign of opposition from smug locals who would no doubt applaud the Indian billionaire we see setting up India's first low-cost airliner to get a million people into the air who've never flown before. The Age of Stupid is screening at the Showroom and you fear it may merely preach to the converted.
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