Posted on 09/01/2017 3:35:59 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
Venice (AFP) - Nobody is ever going to call Paul Schrader's "First Reformed" a feel-good movie, and the legendary screenwriter and director is fine with that.
"If you are hopeful about humanity and the planet you are not paying attention," Schrader said Thursday as he presented his latest writing and directing project at the Venice film festival.
The film turns around the uncheery theme of impending environmental apocalypse and the question of whether Christians could or should have done more to prevent it.
"I don't see humanity outliving the century," Schrader told reporters after the drama, which stars Ethan Hawke, as an unexpectedly middle-aged troubled pastor, and Amanda Seyfried, was unveiled.
The dark tale is being tipped as an outside shot for the Golden Lion, the top prize at the world's oldest cinema festival.
Outlining the thinking that lay behind his script, Schrader added: "I have to be honest. I have lived in the magic cone of history, the baby boomer years."
"A life of affluence, a life of leisure, a life of little pestilence, little war. And for that my generation has pretty well screwed the planet for our kids."
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Even if global warming is as serious as some think, humanity will easily outlive this century. There are technological mitigations that will work if needed - which I doubt they are.
I'd say the biggest threat for a major die-off of humans is an engineered microorganism created by someone convinced that humans are a scourge on the Earth. An eco-Nazi, in other words.
why are so many boomers so dumb ?
“I don’t see humanity outliving the century”
What a moron, humanity has endured through the plague, the Nazi scourge, the communist scourge, the Dark Ages...it is out of humans’ control, we are sentenced to endure for many more ages.
The real question is why are we sentenced to endure through this meaningless torment?
Playing to his audience, the judges.
Very easily within the range of possibility. I would have to be multiple such organisms/viruses etc, for a variety of reasons, but it is definitely a concern.
Spoiler alert.
Whether you are protestant or catholic you are raised with the idea that through blood you can become clean. This is a pretty dangerous idea when you think about it but it is part and parcel of the programming we receive as Christians.”
Hopefully the little pot bellied dick-tater in NORK won’t push some button that will cause a multinational nuclear conflagration.
You can go back to ancient Greece and Rome, and find the same guys standing around and talking ‘Apocalypse-talk’. It’s been going on for three-thousand years and will continue. It’s entertainment....mostly because it never happens.
It is beyond me how Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Pol Pot managed not to be assassinated.
“why are so many boomers so dumb ?”
Schrader answers this himself.
“A life of affluence, a life of leisure, a life of little pestilence, little war. And for that my generation has pretty well screwed the planet for our kids.”
Like most leftists he lacks introspection so he lives a life of hypocrisy and profound irony.
Fear.
Instead of sending in von Stauffenberg, the Valkyrie planners needed to send in an older terminally ill officer to push the briefcase bomb into Hitler's face and push the button.
What kind of self-hating cretin would WANT to see such a film?
The same kind of self-hating cretin leftist bleeding hearts who embraced “Fail Safe” and “On The Beach “ in the 60s.( I'll give the "Dr Strangelove" people a pass. It was Hilarious. )
“It is beyond me how Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Pol Pot managed not to be assassinated.”
answer: Satan, the god of this world/age
You’ll never fix anything on the planet if you lay back and do nothing because evil spirits are going to win anyway.
Could it be... drugs?
Drug use would be my guess.
There you have hit the nail on the head. These idiots dwell in an ever shrinking bubble of insanity. Hollywood, worst season in 25 years.
The bright side (as opposed to the side these poor gloomy Leftists wallow in) is the side of truth: Man made climate change is a hoax. Hard work and clean living pay off. The American Dream is alive and well in millions of people. Millions of people all over the world have resisted the moral rot and decay of Western Civilization. Millions have rejected the atheism, corruption, and mendacity of the Left. There's a whole world of ascendant, wholesome, good, decent people out there! There are more of us than there are of them!
This is what the Trump Revolution is all about!
On the bright side we have the Trumps!
On the dark side we have the Grumps!
The choice is easy.
I see you agree with the Compost, NYT, Salon ...
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