Pete Postlethwaite Stars In New Climate Change Doc, The Age Of Stupid
Filed under: film-tv, movies — Michael d'Estries @ 12:05 pm
February 13th 2009
There are plenty of climate change documentaries to choose from out there, but a new one debuting in the UK next month is receiving lots of attention; with one journalist calling it the “best film on climate change that I have seen – and I’ve seen well over twenty.”
It’s called, appropriately enough, The Age of Stupid — and with a clever blend of CGI and live action clips is set in the future looking back at the present age we are in and our inaction to do anything substantial to slow or stop climate change. Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite acts as a kind of guide on what went wrong and how the world spiraled further into environmental hell. From the article,
Armstrong has taken the doc genre and infused it with CGI (that while not quite Hollywood quality, still comes across as realistic and in-place), an industrious story-telling device, an incredibly talented and captivating narrator and actor, and a visually-stunning romp through the present age of over-consumption and denial. A fabulously funny, heart-wrenching and bizarre film, and a pastiche of visual delights that makes An Inconvenient Truth look like the boring slide show it actually is.
Sounds pretty good. The Age of Stupid debuts in the UK on March 20th. Check out the trailer below for a brief glimpse of what to expect:
The Age of Stupid: final trailer Feb 2009 from Age of Stupid on Vimeo.
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Very fitting title. Can’t wait to see it!
After reading, “Agenda for a Sustainable America,” by John Dernbach- the only book of its kind on a subject (climate change) that is terribly important to us all- I am now more convinced than ever that people had better become more educated and learn how to help stop global warming from spiraling out of control. This movie sounds like a great way to get the message across to everyone!
We can’t stop it… it’s too late. The secret societies and the military-environmental complex have been planning for mass exodus to hundreds of underground secret bases.
Probably the best film in the world.
And certainly the most important.
I refuse to believe it’s too late.
There is dignity, pride, satisfaction, and ultimately peace in doing all that we can to secure a viable future for the children.
If that’s seen as bailing out the Titanic with a teaspoon, so be it.
You have to start somewhere.
People with bigger spoons will come along.
Postlethwaite doesn’t play a concerned environmental activist on the screen in Age of Stupid, he plays a man who is an archivist, and one of the last humans left alive on a planet devastated by climate chaos.
Bit hard to be a concerned activist by then, no?
But the film is full of hope and answers, in a paradoxical way.