How to Save the World
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Producer: Barbara Sumner-BurstynWriter: Barbara Sumner-Burstyn
DVD: Region Code 0
Format: NTSC
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-22
Studio: Cloud South Films
DVD Reviews of How to Save the World
DVD Review: Worth viewing, but...
Summary: 3 Stars
First of all, the message of this film is most commendable. I agree with nearly everything it professes.
However, as a documentary, I was quite disappointed. First of all, the necessary information was all presented in the first half of the film, i.e. explaining how Bio-Dynamics works, and the global benefits. The entire second half of the film just goes on to repeat the praises of organic and ethical farming. (Which we all know about, anyways.)
Secondly, the writing is weak-- even a bit annoying. First, the narrator calls Peter Proctor "the father of modern Bio-Dynetics". But actually we learn *Rudolph Steiner* invented it. (I guess Steiner is not the "modern" father since he only first lectured on it in the 1920's ??)
There are other incongruous and factually questionable declarations, but I'll leave it at that.
Finally, there is music CONSTANTLY in the fore or background. Several times something interesting was being said but I couldn't hear it because of the ubiquitous global village-type music drowning everything out.(At times it sounded like those big oil TV commercials trying to come across Earth-friendly. You know the ones.)
So, again, I love the message, but the messanger kind of killed it for me.
Maybe thats because my expectations were high after just seeing "We Feed the World" by Erwin Wagonhofer. This guy went EVERYWHERE and interviewed EVERYBODY, from Brazilian shanty towns to Nestlé corporate headquarters. And even though it wasn't perfect either, it was at times utterly riveting in its brutal objectivity.
I guess what ultimately bothered me about "How to Save the World", was that it's thinly veiled sentimental propaganda got in the way of the story.
Even still, its worth seeing, (if for no other reason than to be reminded what a god Rudoplh Steiner was).
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