Watch This Apocalyptic-Movie Trailer — If You Dare
A new crop of apocalyptic movies will be opening in the next few weeks, but the one that stands out, to my mind, is a strange little movie called Collapse. The film, which is opening in New York and Los Angeles today, is being called “an intellectual horror story.” The film presents a terrifying picture of what the economic collapse will do to our world. One reviewer has declared that viewers “will leave the theater shaken.” Well, I watched the trailer and I’m ready to lose it. Being a glutton for ominous-economic-news punishment, I can’t wait to see it. From a Los Angeles Times review:
Collapse features a spellbindingly weird one-man monologue by Michael Ruppert, a former LAPD officer and investigative journalist who believes that we are about to run out of oil, an event sure to plunge the world into a state of collapse since Ruppert is convinced that our entire world economy is built on an unsustainable addiction to petrol. “What I see now is the end of a paradigm that is as cataclysmic as the asteroid event that killed almost all the life on Earth, and certainly the dinosaurs.”… Filmed with one camera over the course of two days in the basement of an abandoned meatpacking plant in downtown L.A., Collapse is a hermetically sealed package, open to whatever interpretation we might bring to it. … We can take it as gospel, be appalled by its wild, undocumented claims or simply watch bemused, appreciating Ruppert’s gifts as a performer.
Here is the Collapse trailer — if you dare. And here’s a Los Angeles Times review of Collapse.
