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The Planet
Read Stephen Sporer's Daily Planet review of The Planet
Read about this film in Cyn Collins’s Daily Planet review, “21 films in 11 days.”
Director: MICHAEL STENBERG, JOHAN SÖDERBERG, LINUS TORELL
Bringing to mind the groundbreaking pastiche of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi and the immediacy of An Inconvenient Truth, the filmmakers take viewers on a startling and sobering new look around 25 countries and the planet’s extremely critical condition.
Stunning images from every continent are intertwined with commentary from leading ecological researchers, crafting a portrait of a planet imperiled by forces both internal and external. The astonishing visuals of this internationally renowned Scandinavian documentary pack more awe-inspiring punch than any CGI-laden Hollywood blockbuster. Winner of the Vancouver Film Festival’s first-ever Kyoto “Planet Climate” for Change Award.
SWEDEN• 2006 • 84 MINUTES • DIRECTOR: MICHAEL STENBERG, JOHAN SÖDERBERG, LINUS TORELL
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Don't go to this film...
...if desperate circumstances depress you. While The Planet presents important information about global change (not just global warming), it does so in a “THE SKY IS FALLING” sort of way, and offers no hope whatsoever for the future.
Apparently, there is nothing we can do about it. At least according to these filmmakers.
I felt quite disappointed
I felt quite disappointed with this movie, esp. as the review was quite glowing. The movie showed the various problems that humans are causing to the planet in a series of somewhat disjointed topics with talking heads appearing in between. Overall, the lack of a continuous narrative made it very dry – it seemed like a set of disjoint pieces stitched together. Moreover, the tone of the movie was preachy – describing several problems, most of which we are quire familiar with by now, without suggesting anything concrete in terms of solutions. Maybe if this movie had come out 5 yrs back, this would be eye-opening but now, esp. with Al Gore’s movie and so much emphasis on going green, the movie was treading well-worn ground without any suggestions or what any of us can do (besides feeling depressed about the approaching doomsday).
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