It gets its release in the US next week.
I haven’t read the book, but from what I’ve gathered it’s a political nonfiction book. I don’t see how you can adapt that into a movie, unless it has a biographical portion I’m not aware of. Wikipedia says it’s a heist film, anyway.
What would the movie even be about? A positive portrayal of eco-terrorists? I’d love to see it, but surely they couldn’t get away with making a movie like that.
Also very confused by this movie. I remember it got announced around the same time that Malm's book released. It's either gonna be a movie where the main character has a change of heart at the end and embraces peaceful protest and incrementalism, or just one big op.
The movie is about a group of people sabotaging a pipeline. There.
I plan to watch it and hope it's good. It's tiring that so many people on this website just have this idea that everything is bad or that it's cool to not like anything.
Assuming things will be bad and made in bad faith because things have been bad and made in bad faith means you’re just pretending to be cool :so-true:
like OP said,
What would the movie even be about? A positive portrayal of eco-terrorists? I’d love to see it, but surely they couldn’t get away with making a movie like that.
hope away but I don't think it's reasonable to expect it to be good or even think it's particularly likely that something like this could get funded and be good.
Judas and the Black Messiah was directed by someone who wanted to portray the Panthers more accurately and more radically, but he said the studio forced him to edit things out and add Jay Z for the soundtrack lol
I just sat through a lecture on pipelines and energy infrastructure, it gave me anxiety. My takeaway was that the only realistic solution to combatting the ecological devistation caused by capitalism and climate change is to blow up all oil and gas infrastructure.
That’s a very good idea, comrade. :fedposting: We should meet to discuss the financing of such a film. If you could send me your address as well as those of any other movie producers you know, my people will be in touch.
Seriously though, climate-adjacent stuff always makes me anxious. It’s such an enormous problem and we have no meaningful tools to combat it. What’s the answer? Spend decades rebuilding the labor power in the west? Hope that AES countries can do something in time (assuming that there is still time)? Do what the techbros do and pretend that the market will save us? Blow up a pipeline?
I guess I should probably read the book.
The studio’s last two films critiquing capitalism were Parasite and Triangle of Sadness. I enjoyed the former, but it’s rather abstract compared to a movie where the premise is “I’m going to shoot at this pipeline employee,” so I imagine it’ll be libbed up. Like you I can’t imagine a film endorsing ecoterrorism in our reality being untouched. Triangle of Sadness’ premise makes me roll me eyes lol
Saw the movie. I liked it.
non spoilery take on the politics of the movie:
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When the movie was over, the guys sitting in front of us chimed in with "it was pretty one-sided." They were referring to the side of the protagonists aiming to blow up a pipeline.
non spoilery take on the movie's actual quality as a movie:
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It's a very entertaining thriller that handles the act like a heist, complete with new and familiar takes on well-established tropes of that genre. Aspects are contrived but if you can roll with the underlying setup, the execution is relatively grounded and believable.
This is awesome. I can't believe this movie got made. I can't believe that, as soon as anyone got wind there was going to be a movie about militant eco-activists, studios didn't all just agree to re-enact the Hays Code or some senator would lead the charge on getting this movie banned through obscenity laws or something.
This movie will not be playing at a theater anywhere near me so I'm going to have to wait for it to come out online, but I'm excited to see it.
What's really surprising is that the movie is actually Very Hollywood in its construction, pacing, deployment of backstory/character motivation, use of misdirection (occasionally clumsy, mind you) - but the form is used for very different ends and stakes than we are used to from these sorts of movies.
