In response to my own posts and musings and the many many lingering worries about the wars in the Middle East and the Gulf Oil Disaster, Netflix delivered a movie that I wanted to see in the independent theater circuit last year and never got to: "Fuel."
I was very pleased with this movie: it started out as a familiar diatribe against "Big Oil," and even that was educational and full of new facts that I didn't know. But what made this activist film a bit more enriching was its balanced and realistic approach to answering the question, "What can I do to save this planet?" That question haunts as much as it stupefies, precisely because of the magnitude of scale it is asking each of us to address. So in addition to learning about BioDiesel fuel, "Big Oil," the "military oil industrial complex," and frightening backstories to 9/11 and the resulting "War On Terror," this documentary also touched on very important themes of fear, individual choice, cultural stories and the power of narratives, cutting edge technology, and political action. It was very empowering to watch one talking head after another speaking genuinely and passionately about the need to fix the mess we are all in and have all inherited and all contribute to.
Josh Tickell's environmental documentary is not just his story. It needs to be each one of our stories. Very well done, one of the best 112 minutes I have had in a while, and I certainly it hope it gets wide distribution in DVD audiences. Please watch it.
Fuel (2008) - link to IMDB information
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