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Home - free film on YouTube (but be quick!)
6 June, 2009 - 23:19
I strongly recommend you take an hour and a half out of your lives to watch this film:
http://www.youtube.com/homeproject
The cinematography and accompanying soundtrack is simply stunning, it is fifty times a better film than the Age of Stupid. It is deeply profound and rather disturbing but it puts things into a good perspective. It'll only be on YouTube until June 14th so don't put it off, it really is worth it.
7 June, 2009 - 12:33
#2
John you say ‘the proof will be in the pudding; how many of us will change our lifestyles after watching that film’. For me the proof in the pudding relates to building a movement and forcing governments to make changes. This will affect life styles. I am not convinced that putting life styles first is the way forward. Not that you are saying this, but I think many are.
I have just had a phone call from the local Labour Party and asked them what they were doing about climate change. The type of answer was all too common, the leader of the Party has switched to a bike. I am afraid that so much energy is spent of these types of suggestions that it masks the real issues. Our local council has talked and promised green till the cows come home, but is not prepared to go to the electorate with what appears to be a vote loser. Nor are the so called green councillors able to move beyond the personal actions. Might not whole life style thing is, in these circumstances, be individual and introvert, a block to seeing the gravity of the problem and the social solutions?
7 June, 2009 - 16:57
#3
Having not seen An Inconvenient Truth I can't comment on similarities between that and Home.
What struck me was how visually beautiful the earth is portrayed as being, and how obviously man is having a negative effect on it. I cannot believe that anyone can watch the film and not have a renewed admiration of the earth and feel compelled to save it. Remember: if people care enough then they will make a difference, getting people to care is the big problem and I think that the film will make people care.
I agree with John that the advice given at the end was rather weak and watered down from the harsh reality of the situation. And it must have taken a lot of energy to produce, but I think it will do more good than harm, so it can only be a good thing.
In some ways, this film is like The Inconvenient Truth. Most of the film talks about the problems but only at the end of the film do they talk about solutions and only then in very vague terms. The proof will be in the pudding; how many of us will change our lifestyles after watching that film.
I thought it was great that the film featured Dubai, a place with little natural resources so everything was imported and a place with lots of sun but no solar panels.
The cinematography is fantastic but the cost of the film in carbon terms is, I think, substantial. There were 50 helicopter pilots listed in the credits and I'm guessing that the production team flew to every country from which they showed video. I think the films producers have realised that we have a very serious problem but yet got to that stage of realising that every individual and every organisation must be responsible for its carbon emissions. The ends does not always justify the means. In contrast, the producers of Age Of Stupid, competely understood that because they were able to show their modest carbon emissions at the end of the film.