The Age of Stupid

Very much a “What The Hell Are We Doing” kind of film, this eco-documentary has been four years in the making (five for some). And in the case of The Age Of Stupid blending fictional elements with reality makes for a truth scarier then fiction often is. A scary truth that is not only inconvenient but also relatively lacking in intelligent input. Six real stories of war, poverty and disaster are brought together and intertwined by one heavy weight of an actor, namely the Oscar nominated Pete Postlethwaite, who plays an archivist, the only fictional character in the film. As he digs through remnants of our lives (footage of the documentaries) he wonders how we ever let it get this far. It’s the year 2055 and runaway climate change has wiped out hundreds of millions of people and destroyed huge parts of the world. It seems we really do live in the age of stupid, and this movie wants to knock some sense into us.