An appropriate title for a documentary in the genre of An Inconvenient Truth, minus the robot like Al Gore. Instead the narrator is Pete Postlethwaite, a dryly funny British actor who leads us through our insane self destruction. It is 2055, and Pete watches news clips of the past, in which the human race did little to prevent climate change. Through flashbacks to teal events, such as Hurricane Katrina, with with an interview with a survivor who stayed to help, in spite of the fact that he lost everything, Al Duvernay, and others show the real cost of our stupidity.
London is under water and Sydney is on fire; Las Vegas is a barren wasteland, and the Amazon rain forest is gone. We have almost completely destroyed the planet.
Piers Guy tries to make a difference by developing wind farms, a clean and renewable energy source. He battles residents of an English town who complain that the turbines will spoil their landscape. Not in my backyard, as the saying goes. It is our selfishness that will ultimately wipe us out.
Other people from around the world are interviewed who still haven't yet given up; but by the end of the film I personally believe that we are at a point of no return. We just cannot continue to add to a world population of over seven billion and survive. Nevertheless, The Age of Stupid is a fine effort.
The Age of Stupid
2009
Action / Documentary / History / News / Sci-Fi / War
The Age of Stupid
2009
Action / Documentary / History / News / Sci-Fi / War
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The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
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Sad but True
Powerful subject, borderline execution
Sometimes powerful documentary on global warming, it has two key problem. First, it often comes close to feeling like it is overstating its case, presenting things in a very skewered, Michael Moore like way, but without the irony or humor. I'm a great believer in the science of global warming and the urgent need to do something, but- at least from what I've read - this film took some worst case scenarios and presented them as mainstream established fact.
Also, for me, the linking device of Pete Postlewaite (an actor I love) as a man in the future looking back at film clips to see where we all went wrong is dorky at first, then dorky, preachy and dull, Any film that ends with "The end?" is a little cute for me.
But the subject is important enough, that if this makes it accessible, say, for kids, that is a worthwhile thing.
Magnificent documentary...
What a magnificent documentary, and 10 years later, nothing has changed, quite the contrary, we are increasingly consumerist, inhuman and materialistic... The real characters Layefa Malini and the lifeguard touched me, and the children cut me to the heart, the naivete, and responsibility so young, the game representing the guild, cruel and treacherous... Guy Piers' struggle for wind energy, a solitary struggle, touched me, and the rancidity I took from the despicable Indian businessman Jeh Wadia... Beautiful ...