Intelligently probed by director Chris Smith and always compelling to watch, the chain-smoking Ruppert's vision of the future should be on everyone's viewing list.
Ruppert is pro-oil, but is allowed his inveighings of epiphanic despair. Self-redeemingly, he ends by proposing we each find a patch of the world to tend as our garden. Give him his due: he is the Voltaire of the eco-crisis age.
(Director Chris Smith) unearths the flawed humanity behind the apocalyptic theorising.
I would have preferred to hear Ruppert on the subject of which he has personal knowledge: that is, the drugs allegation. But this is powerful stuff.
Some of his analysis is way off the mark, but you don't doubt his sincerity.
It doesn’t help his case that he faces eviction from his house for non-payment of rent, but some of his warnings have the power to make a listener think twice.
His acute analysis is more persuasive than his somewhat vague suggestions of how the world might evolve.
Focused and interesting.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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