Close Up Italy - “It is Above All the Story of Human Weaknesses”

ROME FILM FESTIVAL

This UNFORESEEN review takes a totally different tact than most. Google’s translation seems better here, though it has its moments (”bringing out the human side of the executioner.”) Wish I read Italian.

The world is succumbing, overwhelmed by avarice, vanity and honors. Defeated by an army of houses in rows with swimming pool, shopping malls, four-lane highways, corrupt politicians, bad governance and natural disasters. The pollution has become a problem that can no longer be postponed. The cinema if they have noticed an increase in documentaries and who worry about bringing to our attention disasters and environmental abuses building.

Prior to being an environmentalist documentary The Unforeseen, presenetato many festivals including the latest edition of Sundance, it is above all the story of human weaknesses. Not only is the story of the life of a Texas manufacturer, speculation building in the USA, the American lobby, but especially that of a man who has promised himself to return in the small town in which it is born of winning and is willing to do this to sacrifice and destroy everything that comes along its path: short summary of the American dream.

During the seventies in Texas, a young entrepreneur plans to build a residential area in Austin, in one of the greenest cities in the country. All row until smooth liberalization of the rules binding credit institutions and regulate interest rates, forcing the contractor to ask for help from a multinational company in exchange for political support for the construction of another residential area. The construction of the latter would lead to pollution of aquifers one of the most important state and the city occurs.

The environmental disaster is inevitable, is the timing and progress demands, is the crazy world that forgets what are the primary need and reverses the whole order of priority. Documentary masterful beauty, The Unforeseen mixes styles and languages passing by ICMP to video art, showing the nature throughout the complexity and wonder. The film interjects interviews, and material shot repertoire. . The counterpoint undoubtedly pleasant and well built, the work is clearly distinguishable from standard television classic that rages in much of contemporary documentary. The film is undoubtedly a work by authors and staff and beyond any legitimate aesthetic judgment, a courageous and determined. The director Laura Dunn seems to be uncertainty and build the narrative according to a precise and consistent. Respondents play the role of real people and are placed within the story using materials of their day, the graphics and use of a coherent and sapientw fitting alternate. Without denying the value of testimony that the film takes on itself as a warning to posterity, unforssen The surprise of the human side.

Not so now abused theme of the fight between man and nature, between progress and tradition, but the capacity that the director has to bring out the human side of the executioner. The story, though they are not obvious environmental matrix takes net positions, but remains detached giving the viewer the opportunity to listen and try to understand. The emotion of the final “protagonist”, totally insensitive to the damage caused by his momentous project, confesses that the most terrible thing for him, even more so for fraud in the process that has involved and the damage they caused, was having his mother confess to bankruptcy, invites all of us to reflect on the fragility of the reasons that guide our decisions and the fragility and power of the whole human race.