The Hypocrite needed a clearer POV, it felt a bit muddled, and oversimplified, like "I shouldn't feel guilty for riding a snowmobile because I'm politically active..." BUTTTT it did raise an interesting subject about the tension we're all feeling around being imperfect.
Yep the tension thing is a good topic. I just thought the opening section where they're all razzing around on snowmobiles didn't exactly set up the argument super well.
I agree, a really bad start and I abandoned watching five minutes in. 'Poor them' with their Colorado garages full of guilt-ridden shiny gear. But I watched it in full this morning and felt a little more sympathetic. Yes, we all face the cognitive dissonance between individual choices and the system we're locked all in, but that's never really resolved here is it?
Most importantly I think that the film and its message suffers from not getting to the possible solutions and to citizen engagement until 20+ minutes in, and even then it's really superficial. No one says what the viewers can do to hasten changes.
Also, why does no one mention electric powered snow-mobiles? Seems like Ski-Doos are the missing unifying link between right wing hunters and left wing freeriders and there are viable clean alternatives to petrol power available right now. Even electric helicopters aren't far away either.
Yes it seemed really poorly structured to me, because as you say most people on the right (as the comments show) would have been enraged by the start and not stuck around for the actual solution. Which even then seemed pretty weak.
The Hypocrite needed a clearer POV, it felt a bit muddled, and oversimplified, like "I shouldn't feel guilty for riding a snowmobile because I'm politically active..." BUTTTT it did raise an interesting subject about the tension we're all feeling around being imperfect.
Yep the tension thing is a good topic. I just thought the opening section where they're all razzing around on snowmobiles didn't exactly set up the argument super well.
I agree, a really bad start and I abandoned watching five minutes in. 'Poor them' with their Colorado garages full of guilt-ridden shiny gear. But I watched it in full this morning and felt a little more sympathetic. Yes, we all face the cognitive dissonance between individual choices and the system we're locked all in, but that's never really resolved here is it?
Most importantly I think that the film and its message suffers from not getting to the possible solutions and to citizen engagement until 20+ minutes in, and even then it's really superficial. No one says what the viewers can do to hasten changes.
Also, why does no one mention electric powered snow-mobiles? Seems like Ski-Doos are the missing unifying link between right wing hunters and left wing freeriders and there are viable clean alternatives to petrol power available right now. Even electric helicopters aren't far away either.
Yes it seemed really poorly structured to me, because as you say most people on the right (as the comments show) would have been enraged by the start and not stuck around for the actual solution. Which even then seemed pretty weak.