Brave New World

There are some really great films at cinema MK2 Beaubourg at the moment. And it's obviously a time for documentaries. Last week I watched We Feed the World, which is a great film. I look on the shelfs in the shops and the food I see it's just disgusting. The mass production of the food have stolen it's taste, not to mention that it's destroying local economies all around the world. The strongest line is anyhow the one from Jean Ziegler, UN Special Reporter on the Right to Food: "Given the current state of agriculture in the world, it could feed 12 billion people with no problem. Or to put it another way: any child who dies of starvation today is in fact murdered." It makes you think.
Yesterday I saw Jesus Camp and it scares you from the other side. The film follows group of children in their summer camp, where they play, dance and do all the other things that kids do. But what is a specialty of this one: it’s Evangelical Christians gathering and they teach the kids some amazing things: that the school theory of evolution is wrong and that they should believe in creationism, islam is of course equal to the terrorism, support of American troops in Irak is not a question and George W. Bush is the best guy in the world. They teach the kids (even that young as 6 years old) how to be Christian soldiers in God’s army. And the church leaders, without any bad conscience, speak about the fact that what you teach the child in the age between 7 and 10 years it stays in his mind for the rest of his life!! They approach to the youngsters as a key generation that will change the face of America. Of course, the key generation, indoctrinated kids who will grow up in crusaders fighting all around the world with a sword and a torch for the one and only existing god (interesting article you can read here). The filmmakers presented in the movie also the only voice of intellect, the guy who has a radio talk show in which he is opening the raising questions about that subject. Followed with his voice coming from different radios, we travel through America. As an editing structure, those parts reminded me a lot of M.A.S.H. which uses the speakers to connect smaller scenes through the story line. My favorite moment in film is when pastor uses the water to purify the kids from their sins. It’s a Nestle bottle of water. And in We Feed the World there is an interview with a Nestle executive director, in which he says that point of view of NGO’s that the water should be free for everyone is horrible and that we should attach a value to the water.
Obviously, great time is coming. Very soon they will probably start charging us for the air we are breathing and then we are really fucked. Even if global warming doesn’t exist.

Voila, here is one more time the picture that I took in New Mexico.


J.J.B.