“THE AGE OF STUPID”
Summary:
• The film is mostly documentary-style summarizing some of the issues of climate change (especially statistics about emissions), including using clever animations.
• The film focuses on six narrative human stories: a new low-cost Indian airline company, a mountain guide in the Alps, a Katrina hurricane victim and oil worker, a Nigerian woman and the effects of Shell on the country, an Iraqi family that are now refugees in Jordan, and a UK man working to build a wind farm but failing due to NIMBY opposition.
• In the Q&A, the director said that after Inconvenient Truth came out, they decided to cut most of the science out of the film.
• The set up of the film is a man composing a cautionary tale to be transmitted into space form the world’s archive (a station in the Arctic) in 2055 about how we destroyed our world, even though we knew it was coming and we knew what to do to avoid it. “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?”
• The film powerfully pulls you into the human stories, explores issues of personal choice, current hypocrisies, vividly depicts how we already are seeing the effects of climate change, and presents a strong call for action (mainly mass protest) in support of international action to reduce emissions.
*A must watch. Hope this’ll be shown here in the Philippines. :D
