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Monday, June 15, 2009

Why, yes, I'd like to see this

...even if it does make me not want to eat certain things afterward.

Posted by Ki Two at 1:02 PM
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4 comments:

-P said...

I'd go see this movie--if only for the possibility of mocking the concern over caribou. :)

Joking aside, there is a lot of validity to what the intent of this movie seems to be. The comparison to the tobacco industry is a fitting one, but it is understated. The purification of our eating habits dictates on a much grander scale the long-term direction of humankind.

I get tired of hearing the buzzwords (organic, locally grown) only b/c the supporters of movements like this tend to beat over the head anyone who will listen. But I guess that doesn't lessen the importance of ideas like organic and locally grown/produced food.

This must be a limited release film. I haven't seen it available in any theater around my area.

1:14 PM, June 15, 2009
Ki Two said...

I'm not sure what all the focus points of the movie will be, but I like that they are implying in the trailer at least some focus on how certain foods/processes affect human health. I don't buy organic stuff (it's expensive!), but some things I buy are local, but I don't pick them just because they're local. I don't like buzzwords, either, but it's time people realized that the "hippies" aren't trying to be cool (well, some of them are), they're making what I think are better choices. And I don't make health-conscious or environmentally-conscious food choices enough.

So, I wanna see it.

It just opened on Friday, so I think it'll expand slowly. South Carolina seems not to be a target area of these sorts of films. :(

1:20 PM, June 15, 2009
-P said...

You bring up a good point. It's important to make the distinction between those that actually care about furthering these (sincerely) "noble causes," as phrased by the guy at the end of the trailer, and those that are only following a trend. The trendsters and "cool hippies" that become instantly over-passionate about x-issue are the biggest deterants to those that are initially ambivilant. Unless someone has devoted sufficient time and/or energy to a cause, their zeal just comes off as fake and illegitimate. It is much easier to listen to and take seriously a genuine and invested supporter.

3:13 PM, June 15, 2009
13ismyluckynumber said...

who is alice waters? why is her opinion "this is the film I've been waiting for." important if we don't know who she is???

9:28 PM, June 21, 2009

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