Typical library movie fare:
Oak Park Public Library’s ‘Truth In Storytelling’ series presents:
COLLAPSE
Veterans Room, Oak Park Main Library
834 Lake Street, Oak Park
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Less wake-up call than four-alarm fire, “Collapse” forces its audience to witness the testimony of Michael Ruppert, an independent writer and researcher who believes that industrial civilization is falling apart, soon to vanish completely. In other words, it makes countless other political documentaries look like episodes of children’s cartoons. Unnervingly persuasive much of the time, and merely riveting when it’s not, Ruppert’s talking-head analysis gets the Errol Morris treatment from director Chris Smith (“American Movie”), whose intellectual horror film ranks as another essential work, one well deserving of play in major cities — provided they’re still around.
The crux of Ruppert’s argument is that, in a world of rapidly depleting resources, market capital’s requisite promise of infinite growth has become a lie, particularly in the realm of oil, for which there’s no replenishing and no viable substitute. “Clean coal” is a contradiction in terms, Ruppert says, and ethanol is “a joke.” Electricity requires oil.
Come for a free screening, refreshments and discussion.
For more information call the Library at 708-452-3440 or visit:
http://www.oppl.org/events/films.htm
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To be fair, it’s a tribune to the Coalition of Truth and Justice people, for whom there is no conservative or Republican counterpart in Oak Park. Public library goes with the flow. There’s no indication of denying venues to anyone.
It’s a tribute, I meant to say. My bad.