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\"\"<\/a>Things must be getting serious. At least for the planet and the environment. What else would explain the plethora of eco documentaries hitting the film festival circuit or that will hit mainstream theaters in the near future? Many of these green docu films cast a waving finger along with charts and graphs about what will happen to the planet in the future if we don\u2019t act now. The Age of Stupid<\/a> works a bit in reverse.<\/p>\n

The Age of Stupid takes place in the year 2055 with a man called the Archivist (Pete Postlethwaite<\/a>) sitting in a Noah\u2019s Ark type storage tower with a collection of famous art, pairs of animals, and enough computer servers to make Google envious.\u00a0 The tower exists because the world has turned into a fiery, and flood ridden disaster area. The Archivist\u00a0 searches through archived video footage to see where man went wrong after having the opportunity to change things. The film takes futuristic standpoint of looking at the present (like right now).<\/p>\n

Instead of following one narrative, director Franny Armstrong<\/a> takes a Traffic<\/a> style approach with six different narratives. Instead of the drug trade, this film cleverly looks at the climate change.<\/p>\n

Armstrong weaves the film\u2019s central climate change core through various through lines, among others, transportation, war, consumerism, natural disaster, and alt energy and ties them together with intense and striking visuals. One story follows a local New Orleans hero Alvin DuVernay who rescued about 200 people and animals after hurricane Katrina hit but later we find out that he has worked for Shell for 30 years. Another narrative highlights Jeh Wadia who launches a discount Indian airline and honestly believes that he\u2019s aiding the poor masses with cheap fares and thinks that the environmental aspect of flying an airline will just work itself out. The film smoothly displays how each of the characters has their own justification for doing something or their own hypocrisy toward climate change.<\/p>\n

Like any multiple story line film, some characters and stories offer more connection, insight, emotion and education than others. On a creative level, for a low budget film, this pop-style documentary offers high production values with its spirited animation sequences and an often high charged music score. It also offers a clever way of telling\u00a0 the cautionary climate change tale that has been seemingly uttered countless times in recent years. Armstrong obviously created this film as a two-minute warning leading up to the Copenhagen treaty<\/a> in December 2009 and although the film isn\u2019t perfect hopefully she will be able to make a sequel called the Age of Smart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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