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This film which presents a discussion by experts in a number of fields about whether the human species can survive climate change, and if so, what is our pathway towards doing so? While that may sound like a boring intellectual discussion, the film's use of nature photography to illustrate its points brings both beauty and a sense of imminent tragedy. However, it does end on a hopeful note. The film argues that It may very well be possible for our species to survive, but it will require us to make significant changes in the way we think and live. An essential film for people who have concerns about the future, and are not living in denial about climate change.

When I first streamed this movie I stopped after the second appearance of the bear which I initially found confusing and annoying. However, after a few days I realized that I still thinking about that bear, so I had go back and watch the entire movie. The director wants you to think and to feel deeply, and this is accomplished by a subtle transition from simple entertainment into what I would describe as mysticism or animistic religion. If you love film, you should see this one. You may love it or hate it but you probably won't forget it. Shot in the polar region of Canada, it provides profound insight into the character and behavior of the people who live in such an isolated and hostile environment. Some are born there but others choose to live there, and that difference is at the heart of the story.

Watch the Mystery Science Theater or the Rifftrax version of this horrible sci-fi about a spaceship that is a stagnant dictatorship (yes, it is) run by a bearded old man in a silver robe. He looks like Santa Claus but he talks like "God the Father" shouting his Commandments with an angry growl. Some of the crew want to escape their endless voyage to nowhere and to land a nearby planet, and this is called a "mutiny." The hero (who gleefully slaughters the mutineers) is a dimwitted bodybuilder who chases after the least sexy female in the cast. (Really. The movie is full of scantly dressed babes and the bodybuilder hooks ups with a silicone-injected harpy of a woman who is old enough to be his mother.) At the end of the film, they make love on the floor of an abandoned factory that is being used as a movie set. The director put a few potted plants on the factory floor to make it look like a botanical garden. If there is a list of the "worst love scenes of all time," this one would be somewhere in the top ten.