SILENT RUNNING (1972).
⭐⭐⭐⭐
For some reason, this film was never on my radar, until recently. Wound up buying a DVD rather than rewarding our corporate overlords' stranglehold on culture.
What a melancholy, somber film. Having been alive in the 1960s, I can see where this film comes from—it's an extrapolation of the then-current and now ongoing battle between ecologists and corporations, to a final resolution. It's The Lorax, as a sci-fi film.
1/2
The main character—played by Bruce Dern—is a moody, somewhat delusional loner who cares more about the forests he is tending on their space ark than his fellow crewmates. The movie is really just a character study of this one man, as he struggles against humankind's direction. From the start, you can sense everything is doomed.
Wonderfully fitting for today's sitch. Ebert's review when it came out nails it:
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/silent-running-1971
2/2
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