Sunday, October 03, 2004

From the Movie Snob:

Sacred Planet (B). The Snob went home to visit his parents in North Little Rock, Arkansas, this weekend, so that meant one thing — a trip to the Arkansas Air and Space Museum, home of Arkansas’s only IMAX theater. On Friday nights, the AASM offers a special deal: movie, popcorn, and coke for only $5! So I dragged the parents out there for this flick. It’s a pretty standard Greenpeace kind of affair. On the plus side, the cinematography was perhaps the best I have ever seen in a film of this type. There were countless shots that were truly breathtaking. Some of the ones that come to mind include Bryce Canyon, sequoia forests and glaciers in the Pacific Northwest, and ancient Buddhas in the jungles of Thailand. But the disconnect between the narration, by Robert Redford, and the images was so ridiculous as to be laughable. The narration warned that there are only a few "traditional" cultures left in the entire world in which human beings really live in harmony with Mother Earth, and to underscore the point the moviemakers occasionally interject a sped-up shot of some busy highway or street corner to show how alienated our urban cultures are from nature. But then you see the actual people living in these "traditional" cultures, like tribal peoples living on the African savannah or paddling little canoes on muddy jungle streams in Borneo, and you (or at least I) think, "If you think I’m trading my air conditioning, DVD player, Honda Accord, modern medicine, and sanitary food and water to get back to nature like that, you’re crazy!" See the movie for a gorgeous views, and ignore the crackpot commentary.

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