The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future, which had its UK premiere in London on March 15th 2009 and is now being shown in countries around the world.
Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off) stars as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
I heard about this film from Linda Buzzell’s column on the Huffington Post.
Seems very interesting, and I agree with her that it could be a ‘far hipper’ version of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’
Check out the trailer:
The Age of Stupid Trailer Feb 2009 – SD from Age of Stupid on Vimeo.
As entertaining as this film could be, the questions that Postlethwaite’s character, The Archivist, poses seem to have a realistic eeriness to them.
“We could have saved ourselves, but we didn’t. It’s amazing. What state of mind were we in, to face extinction and simply shrug it off?”
“We wouldn’t be the first life form to make itself extinct. But what would be unique about us is that we did it knowingly. What does that say about us?”
I can’t wait to see it.
For more information: www.ageofstupid.net
