The Age of Stupid

The Age of Stupid is a 2009 British film by Franny Armstrong, director of McLibel and Drowned Out, and founder of 1010, and firsttime producer Lizzie Gillett. The executive producer is John Battsek, producer of One Day in September.

The film begins in the year 2055 in a world ravaged by catastrophic climate change London is flooded, Sydney is burning, Las Vegas has been swallowed up by desert, the Amazon rainforest has burnt up, snow has vanished from the Alps and nuclear war has laid waste to India. An unnamed archivist Pete Postlethwaite is entrusted with the safekeeping of humanitys surviving store of art and knowledge. Alone in his vast repository off the coast of the largely icefree Arctic, he reviews archive footage from back when we could have saved ourselves, trying to discern where it all went wrong.Amid news reports of the gathering effects of climate change and global civilization teetering towards destruction, he alights on six stories of individuals whose lives in the early years of the 21st century seem to illustrate aspects of the impending catastrophe. These six stories take the form of interweaving documentary segments that report on the lives of real people around the year 2008, and switch the films narrative form from fiction to fact. In addition to the framing narrative in 2055, the news clips and the documentary footage of the six personal stories, the films includes animated segments and brief interviews with Mark Lynas and George Monbiot, created for the film. ........

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