2009 · war · documentary · history
The Age of Stupid
Directed by Franny Armstrong1h 32m2009
Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Our read: The Age of Stupid (2009) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive war · documentary · history entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured war / documentary, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- epic-stakes
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