Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
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Der Film Die Epoche des Menschen spannt den Bogen von den kilometerlangen Betonwällen, die inzwischenmehr als die Hälfte von Chinas Küsten schützen müssen,über die weltweit größten Bagger im Tagebau in Nordrhein-Westfalen, eine Pottasche-Mine im Ural, die sibirische Industriestadt Norilsk, das australische Great Barrier Reef bis hin zuVerdunstungsbecken in der Atacama-Wüste, wo Lithium gewonnen wird, dasin psychedelischen Farben schillert. Aus Sicht der Anthropocene Working Group ist inzwischen der Mensch so beherrschend für das Schicksal des Globus, dass diese Änderung der Balance ausreicht, um ein neues Erdzeitalter auszurufen. Die Filmemachersind um den Globus gereist, um mit modernster Kameratechnik die Beweisedafür zu sammeln und spürbar zu machen, wie sehr der Mensch den ganzen Planeten dominiert. (Happy Entertaiment)
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Stunning shots that are more truthful than those with which series like Planet Earth captivate us (though we could discuss the paradox that lies in the attempt to show devastation in a manner that makes it look beautiful above all else), but what purpose are they supposed to serve? The monotonous accumulation of information about how humanity has thoroughly screwed the planet intensifies environmental grief, the feeling of helplessness and apathy. Films showing what can be changed and issuing calls to action are more necessary than those that penitently repeat over and over again everything that we have done wrong as a civilisation. We already know that.
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What a crappy documentary. Most of the aestheticized footage chronicling troubled industries would be fine for the bosses of those companies to hang proudly above their desks. The communication the film establishes is often only with local workers at the very bottom of the industrial chain, instead of dealing with the higher echelons and the private/government nexus, the real culprits in the current environmental crisis. We can either mourn at the sight of the expansion of open pit quarries or we can finally admit the truth that there are some 200 specific people in the world and if we don't have a single photo of us holding the severed head of at least one of them, we have done virtually nothing to save the environment.
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