Oil Crash Movie

wisconsin_cur · Moderator Joined: May 10, 2007 Posts: 2918

My mom was visiting last week and it "coincidently" arrived from Netflix and we sat down to watch it as a family.

"Yep, the party is over." she said.

Later we talked about her kitchen remodel...

She is a person who would "get it" but bridging that gap between underrstanding and action is another thing.

Perhaps she just figures I will take care of her grandkids and what happens to her is unimportant (we're like that).
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teky · Coal Joined: Oct 11, 2007 Posts: 5

Hi,
A crude awakening is a shocking documentary about how the citizens of planet earth are sucking dry our most valuable and non-renewable natural resource: oil.
Its release in UK : the 9 November in London.(At Curzon,Soho)
It' really worth seeing.

Micki

New??
I've had a copy of Crude Awakening for a year now.
In my opinion it is the best one of them all. I liked it more than end of suburbia, crude or crude impact.
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viewed at a directors showing...

ok the music was very "fog of war" as were some of the graphical links and style... but the rip off was done well

the ford 1960 ad is now officially the most over used piece of libary footage..

it appears in most Adam Curtiss docs...fog of war and this one... I belivev it also appears in "who killed the electric car"

almost a cult reference to documentaries that present alternative world views..

the message was portrayed well I thought and Matt...you came across very well indeed.

in a Q&A session afterwards the most disturbing questions concerned "why didn't you include positive solutions"

the aspect of the documentary that needs reinforcing is the section on mindsets concerning what constitutes a "solution"

people can get on board with "oil running out" or even with the more realistic notion of peak and decline...

what they can not grasp is the notion that "solutions" are not generated by default.

the need to emphasize how unprecedented the fossil fuel age is and even more how dictated its demise, is where there is room for improvement in the message....

that does not mean some ultra doomer pron docu... the scale of the problem needs to be further enhanced visually by creating words and images that not only point dependance and scale of use but the difficulties in replacing that utility.

this aside the film did make many efforts to make this point... but as Campbell and Matt point out its a "attitude thing".

the film was well received and sparked news items on BBC4. but i was surprised about some of the in-denial reaction in the Q&A.

It was almost as thou some of the audience had edited out the sections that make the point about "transition issues"...

were they watching the same film?

a dedicated "replacing fossil fuels" docu that hammers home the point is required.

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some of the close editing of interviews looked a bit manipulative especially the opec talking head..but thats documentaries with a aggenda (nothing wrong with that per ae)

in Morris's fog of war he allows the editing process to be seen so we are aware of how the interview is a controlled expression of McNamara's POV.... this settles you into trusting the director more.

short snippets of less that a couple of sentences are suspect.. the curtis/morris approach of allowing you to hear the interviewer off camera and sustain the conversation for a length of time that confirms the context of the meaning of the "talking head" is preferable where possible.

Some interviewees such as Campbell's explanations are good in this regard and need little editing...

overall 7/10

good.. infact very good but failed on a important issue even to a room of chicken crap liberal media types.. which no doubt is a function of 21st cent mindset rather than some deep error in the film..

that said it is the area that has to be addressed in the "getting the message out"

powering down is a major political hurdle.. it must be addressed

Boris
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Opens in the UK this week.

New 'disaster' movie warns world of oil apocalypse
The latest gloves-off documentary to hit screens predicts a global meltdown as vital fuel runs out

A Crude Awakening hits cinemas this week

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americandream · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:49 pm Post subject: Re: Oil Crash Movie

I remember as a kid asking a committed, and well read Marxist why he was so ideologically driven. And his reply was:

"Do you think that this planet is able to support everyone owning a car? When this system has run its course, they will even be selling their grandmothers (granny farming?)"

That made so much sense at the time that I have been utterly convinced of the failure of this system through my adolescent and adult years. On the down side, I've never quite made it as a yuppie...so there is a cost to be paid. You end up being an angst driven nerd.
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