H2O
by Charles Binamé
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Actor: Callum Keith Rennie, Guy Nadon, Leslie Hope, Martha Henry, Paul GrossDirector: Charles Binamé
Producer: Paul Gross
Writer: Paul Gross
Cinematographer: Derick V. Underschultz
Producer: Frank Siracusa
Producer: Neil Bregman
Producer: Penny McDonald
Writer: John Krizanc
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 177 minutes
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DVD Review: "H2O" is a misleading title; should have been called "Confederation"
Summary: 3 Stars
Most Americans are benignly unaware of the Canadian politics going on above us, but "H2O" is a Canadian political thriller that posits some interesting questions: What if Canada began shipping its water south to the United States? Why would they do this? And why are Canada and the United States two separate countries at all?
The movie opens with the Canadian Prime Minister (PM) being killed in a canoeing accident (if he were American, he would have been shot or died in a plane crash, but since he's Canadian, he dies in a canoeing accident!), and his son taking over as PM for an interim period. As the story progresses, we learn that the grief-stricken son is not quite as noble as he looks, and there is a plot afoot to use the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to facilitate the cross-border shipments of fresh water from the Great Lakes to the perpetually thirsty American southwest.
I won't give away any more of the plot, but speaking as a person who is somewhat knowledgeable about international water resources politics (a colleague and I wrote an academic paper about North American water exports around the time this film was made), I wished the story had more to do with the actual environmental realities surrounding fresh water exports than with Canadian inter-party politics. Yes, the terms of NAFTA specify that once water is exported as a commodity, it must continue to be shipped domestically and internationally in equal measure. This means that if there is a water shortage, domestic shipments must be curtailed to the same degree that exports are curtailed; in other words, Canada must treat American and Mexican customers the same as it treats Canadian customers. However, the premise of the story is that Canada's exporting water to the United States is a big danger for the country, and yet it is not explained why this should be the case. Nowhere is it proposed that Canada might run out of water. The film hints that water services are being privatized by large corporations - surprise, where is this not happening in the world? All I'm left with is the idea that it is an affront to Canadian pride that Americans should be drinking their water at all. Did they not read NAFTA before they ratified it?
Paul Gross makes a fine if slimy grieving son-turned-PM, and Leslie Hope and Guy Nadon were believable as the team attempting to put themselves together and ride to the rescue of the aforementioned Canadian pride. (Martha Henry was, I thought, a bit too Lady Macbeth as the wine-guzzling widow of the former PM and mother of the current PM.) If the story premise were followed upon, I was left wondering what the Americans would have thought of the following news headline: "Canada to become part of United States"? Would any of them have even remarked, eh?
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