Review of Gasland (2010) by Mike M — 17 Jan 2011
Somewhat schizoid and hesitant in its methods...This isn't, however, the work of a big-city filmmaker who's landed in the sticks with his mind already made up; Fox never condescends to his subjects, in the manner a Michael Moore would.
In fact, we learn the filmmaker is the son of counterculture folk who built their home themselves, as a retreat in an unspoilt corner of the Catskills, and something in his voice, and about the final sequence of images, reminded me of Jedediah Purdy, the nature boy whose late 1990s tract "For Common Things" mixed Henry David Thoreau with Naomi Klein, and cast globalisation as, above anything else, an enemy of our shared natural resources (fresh air, clean water, fertile soil).
This review of Gasland (2010) was written by Mike M on 17 Jan 2011.
Gasland has generally received very positive reviews.
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