
This ambitious documentary/drama/animation hybrid stars Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, asking the question: "Why didn't we stop climate change when we still had the chance?" He looks back on footage of real people around the world in the years leading up to 2015 before runaway climate change took place.... (Full plot summary below)
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This ambitious documentary/drama/animation hybrid stars Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, asking the question: "Why didn't we stop climate change when we still had the chance?" He looks back on footage of real people around the world in the years leading up to 2015 before runaway climate change took place.
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| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinThough this narrative device can feel a bit gimmicky and grandiose, it also provides a visual and emotional power that drives home this absorbing film's crucial cautionary message. |
| MovieTime, ABC Radio NationalRuth HesseySo tightly constructed and dynamic you leave the cinema energised rather than terrified and depressed. |
| Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerCommunicates something of the massive global impact of our careless, though officially encouraged, consumption, even if Armstrong's outsized ambitions threaten to dissipate some of the movie's force. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyEducational and inventive, the documentary speaks with a strong editorial voice from a backward-looking vantage point. It's a narrative device that proves most effective. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenA frightening jeremiad about the effects of climate change. |
| Film Journal InternationalSarah SluisAn eye-opening look at individual contributions to global warming. |
| User ReviewStuart SThis film has endured in my psyche more perhaps than any other film I have ever seen. It is a wonderful wake-up call to humans to get their act together quickly or suffer the unthinkable consequences of runaway climate change, also know as 'the Venus Syndrome'. Far more important than even Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, which started to wake us up. I am only saddened that this movie did not get the play it deserved, perhaps due to missteps in its distribution. |
| User ReviewMelissa HI just saw this. One of Pete Postlewaite's last movies. A great way to present the issue of global warming and environmental damage. |
| User ReviewKevin AAgain, should be mandatory viewing for any thinking person !!! |
| User ReviewTim kEveryone should watch this . How can so many world people be wrong.are goverments are curupt for oil. |