Green Options » age_of_stupid http://greenoptions.com/tag/age_of_stupid Posts tagged 'age_of_stupid' Wed, 06 May 2009 16:03:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en The Age of Stupid at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival http://sustainablog.org/2009/05/06/the-age-of-stupid-at-the-52nd-san-francisco-international-film-festival/ http://sustainablog.org/2009/05/06/the-age-of-stupid-at-the-52nd-san-francisco-international-film-festival/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 16:03:00 +0000 Keith Rockmael http://sustainablog.org/2009/05/06/the-age-of-stupid-at-the-52nd-san-francisco-international-film-festival/ 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’t act now. The Age of Stupid works a bit in reverse.

The Age of Stupid takes place in the year 2055 with a man called the Archivist (Pete Postlethwaite) sitting in a Noah’s Ark type storage tower with a collection of famous art, pairs of animals, and enough computer servers to make Google envious.  The tower exists because the world has turned into a fiery, and flood ridden disaster area. The Archivist  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).

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