The Age of Stupid

The Age of Stupid

The Age of Stupid is a 2008 film by Director Franny Armstrong starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

It follows seven documentary characters, British windfarmer Piers Guy, Indian airline boss Jeh Wadia, Nigerian medical student Layefa Malemi, French mountain guide Fernand Pareau, Iraqi refugee kids Jamila & Adnan and New Orleans Shell paleontologists Alvin Duvernay America, UK, India, Nigeria, Iraq, Jordan, The Alps

... turning into a drama

Now we have one last mountain to climb: producing a daily 20 minute live web TV show, The Stupid Show, from the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December 2009. Just on the off-chance we can influence public opinion and therefore the politicians before they sign us all up to a suicide pact.

I paid $25 for my son and I to go see this movie.  It was broadcast live all over the world.  It had a great opportunity to rile the masses but instead it droned on and on.  It was very amateur, obtuse, and one by one audience members left in disgust.  I made my son stay to the bitter end because I really wanted this film to work.  It didn't.  Calling consumers stupid is not going to motivate them to give up their lifestyle.  Attacking politicians publicly just makes a fool out of you.  Calling attention to the Copenhagen Climate Summit was the sum success of the documentary.