| SYNOPSIS __________
Plot:
Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe
that a new President will right old wrongs, that clean energy
will replace dirty oil, and that fresh thinking will set the
economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their
pessimism and to hope for the best. But is anyone prepared
for the worst? Michael Ruppert is a different kind of American.
A former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter,
he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published
newsletter “From the Wilderness” at a time when
most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial.
Chris Smith has always had a feeling for outsiders in films
like “American Movie” and “American Job.”
In “Collapse,” Smith stylistically departs from
his past films by interviewing Ruppert in a format that recalls
the work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray. Sitting in a room
that looks like a bunker, Ruppert recounts his career as a
radical thinker and spells out the crises he sees ahead. He
draws upon the same news reports and data available to any
Internet user, but he applies a unique interpretation. He
is especially passionate over the issue of “peak oil,”
the concern raised by scientists since the 1970s that the
world will eventually run out of fossil fuel. While other
experts debate this issue in measured tones, Ruppert doesn’t
hold back at sounding an alarm. He portrays a future that
resembles apocalyptic science fiction. Listening to his rapid
flow of opinions, the viewer is likely to question some of
the rhetoric as paranoid or deluded; and to sway back and
forth on what to make of the extremism. Smith lets viewers
form their own judgments.
DETAILS__________
Studio:
Bluemark Films
Vitagraph Films
Production Co:
Bluemark Productions
Release Date:
November 6, 2009 (NY)
November 13, 2009 (LA)
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