Fri., Jul. 22, 2005 12:00 AM PDT
Enter a theater and get back to nature with this documentary about environmental activist David Brower. Considered the leading conservationist of the 20th century, Brower turned the Sierra Club into a powerful lobbying group and made the preservation of our natural resources a matter of public and political concern. Battling Uncle Sam to save Mother Earth, this uncompromising crusader pushed the 1964 Wilderness Act through Congress, prevented the damming of the Grand Canyon and helped establish the Redwoods National Park.
With an appropriately country-fied soundtrack, this flick mixes interviews, news clips and some lovely, color-soaked 16mm footage of the unspoiled outdoors (shot by Brower himself). Curiously, though, this well-intentioned tribute keeps its subject at arm's length, never allowing us to really know the man behind the cause. Plus, its rather pedestrian presentation of facts and an overreliance on title cards leaves
Monumental feeling inspirational for sure--but not so earth-shattering.
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