2010 · documentary
Gasland (2010)
Directed by Josh Fox1h 47m2010
It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas." Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called "fracking"-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.
Our read: Gasland (2010) (2010) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- bleak
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