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Enviro movie of the year?
A review of The Host |
Kit Stolz |
16 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| What is an environmental movie? Is it a movie that uses the beauty of wilderness to make us fall in love with the earth, as for example Into the Wild, or Brokeback Mountain? Is it a movie that explicitly tackles an environmental issue, such as Erin Brockovich, or The China Syndrome? Or is it a picture that exploits the power of raw film to open up an environmental theme -- such as the risk of radiation -- with sheer imagination, such as (the original) God ... |
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| Topics: toxics, waste, water pollution, movies (all these topics) |
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