Fuel

Fuel is definitely a must-see documentary.

Educational and entertaining. Also, it was featured at Sundance and won Best Documentary in 2008. Sundance tends to choose great and compelling films, especially documentaries. (Like Nanking from 2007!)

At times frightening, Fuel is definitely a necessary and important film, especially since one of the things that perpetuates our dependence on foreign oil and subsequent pollution (oil spills included, since they wouldn't exist if we weren't so horribly dependent upon oil for fuel & products) is being in the dark - unaware and uneducated about the history and what is going on. Fuel helps fill in a lot of the information we every day people don't know.

Let me know what you think. Here's the trailer, but see the whole movie. It's on netflix instant-view as well as DVD subscription.

Enjoy!

Are you hungry for change? So is Food, Inc.

Food, Inc. is a must-see documentary from the past few years. Others on my list are The Cove, Surfwise, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and Good Hair, but I'll write more about the others in future blogs. My criteria for a good documentary, is that it be entertaining, first and foremost. In addition to entertaining, a good documentary must look good (have good cinematography and editing), which is a part of being well-produced, and have compelling characters. Here's the trailer for Food, Inc.





If you're even a little bit interested in what kind of food goes into your body, or how food and agriculture in the United States has started to look more and more like the 100% for-profit pharmaceutical business (heck, the FDA and the biggest pharmaceutical companies often swap CEOs and Directors - conflict of interest, anyone?), or an illustration of how farming has drastically changed in the past 50 years, then you should see this movie as soon as possible. 


Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore's Dilemma, which was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by both the New York Times and the Washington Post, appears all over Food, Inc., and rightly so. He seems to be one of the most informed people on all things business-disguised-as-agriculture. Also, author Eric Schlosser is featured in the movie. Between the two of these guys, they've done a ton of legwork around the food and agriculture industries, so we concerned citizens don't have to - we can just read their books.


See this movie. Food, Inc. At the very least, shop for most of your food at farmer's markets, cut back on high-fructose corn syrup, and when you do eat corn, please only eat organic.

 

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