{"id":14726,"date":"2016-11-17T11:27:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14726"},"modified":"2016-11-18T03:25:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T08:25:42","slug":"film-age-of-consequences-the-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14726","title":{"rendered":"Film: Age of Consequences, The (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Documenatary \/ Climate Change \/ War<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Provocative essay on the causal links between climate change, mass population migrations, and civil war.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAn accelerant to instability, a catalyst for conflict, [and] one of the biggest issues of the 21st century.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ostensibly a documentary on climate change, The Age of Consequences<\/strong> augments the rallying cry for proactive and preventative actions by focusing on former military officials who\u2019ve used their experiences in combat and in war-torn regions to draw correlations between radical changes in climate and civil wars in regions that have become arid and infertile.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a perspective that one wouldn\u2019t expect exists in the U.S. military \u2013 believing in climate change, tracking modeled scenarios, and drafting proactive maneuvers to handle the effects \u2013 but within Scott\u2019s widescreen essay, the military\u2019s investigation of future conflicts stemming from climate models makes sense, especially when there\u2019s a pattern that interconnects the events leading up to the Syrian civil war, or the warring factions in Sudan and South Sudan.<\/p>\n

The thesis in\u00a0Consequences\u00a0<\/strong> is clear and bleak: impossible living conditions lead to mass migrations, lack of jobs aggravates poverty and kindles human desperation to a degree that attracts ideologues or despots with false promises of better lives if they join their side.<\/p>\n

To Scott\u2019s interviewees, climate change is \u201can accelerant to instability\u201d;\u00a0the ultimate effects of rising temperatures (melting polar caps, flooding of lowlands, and mass rescues and social needs) are acknowledged, but unlike An Inconvenient<\/strong> Truth<\/strong> (2006), Consequences<\/strong> address the topic with present day crises that remain massively unresolved. The message seems to be that while government officials and scientists spend years attempting to draft, finalize, and sign agreements to which participating nations must adhere, equal efforts, if not more, need to be applied to tackling political and religious divisions, since climate change has a heck of a lead on souring humanity.<\/p>\n

(For Americans, perhaps Scott\u2019s most striking inclusion is footage where former Secretaries of State George Schultz, Madeleine Albright, and Henry Kissinger address a Senatorial Committee, making it clear climate change is non-partisan, irreligious, and apolitical; it\u2019s a thing that we created – or enhanced \u2013 and is wreaking havoc on societies with insidious patience and precision.)<\/p>\n

Scott\u2019s technique has interviewees talking straight to the camera, and words and news pieces are layered between striking, if not exquisite 2.35:1 ‘scope images that distill concepts into singular shots or eerily beautiful slo-mo footage. The arguments are divided into chapters, and Malcolm Francis\u2019 minimalist score shifts between doom and gloom to steady tension.<\/p>\n

Consequences<\/strong> is a dour, multi-thematic provocation that seeks to present sound arguments by the least likely of heroes – ex-military \u2013 and that\u2019s perhaps the doc\u2019s hopeful message: experience broadens perspective, and knowledge contextualizes crises, enabling possible solution through pro-active measures. The interviewees are frank, articulate, and succinct, and eschewing\u00a0any sugar-coating, their words and determination are as powerful as the film\u2019s imagery.<\/p>\n

The Age of Consequences<\/strong> recently screened at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema<\/a>, and for audiences who missed the director Q&A, my\u00a0detailed discussion with Jared Scott is available on KQEK.com\u2019s iTunes<\/a>, Libsyn<\/a>, and YouTube<\/a> channels.<\/p>\n

Jared Scott\u2019s other films include Requiem for the American Dream<\/strong> (2015), Disruption<\/strong> (2014), and Do the Math<\/strong> (2013).<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/strong>
\nEditor’s Blog<\/a> — IMDB<\/a>
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