Who Killed the Electric Car?
by Chris Paine
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Actor: Martin SheenDirector: Chris Paine
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.78:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Who Killed the Electric Car?
Movie Review: Closer to the end...
Summary: 5 Stars
"Who Killed the Electric Car?" sounds like the title of a documentary produced by people with too much time on their hands and no place to go.
A friend dropped off this dvd from his library asking that I view it. Realizing that I had lived through a period in the late 80's and early 90's in Southern California when a lot of noise was being made about this very subject I finally submitted to his request, albeit with a bowl of popcorn.
No personal interest had ever brought me any direct contact with the controversy, and I would have been quick to point out to anyone that asked that there had been some effort to develope an electric car but nothing of importance had ever taken place.
Watching my own stupidity and lack of attention dissolving before me on the screen, I uncomfortably settled in to watch the remake of "Tucker II."
Drifting through scene after scene were flashbacks to "The Paralax View." The stinging caveat being the LA Times reporter naively held in that miasma of 'true life,' mouthing what in effect would be the 'no conspiracy' line, when he should have been strapped in the chair like Warren Beatty, fighting the brainwashing. But indoctrination is far more subtle now, isn't it?
Even the director falls prey to system thinking, hammering 'global warming' as a plank into his platform to resurrect brilliance from the catacombs of politico-industrial backwash.
All the usual suspects are brought to the line-up. Representatives of those private-jet aficionados panhandling in Washington are raked over the coals with responses worthy of a congressional hearing. Politicians, like actors they're grateful for any kind of notice, make their bows. Even the American public is ringed in, to give the film an air of democratic objectivity.
Timeliness drips from the film as viewers continue to massage their wallets from the recent spikes in gas prices. Yet a greater story is being filmed.
The viewer sees it in the helplessness of the heros and heroines as they fight for their earth-saving, money-conserving, clean and healthy runabouts. It shows forth in the hardened faces of the police lines brought in somewhere outside of beautiful downtown Burbank.
It resonates in the adumbration of prophetical proclamations of a time when individuality will submit for the greater good. When common sense will begin to play as radicalism. When those in power will be fewer in number, yet greater in control.
Truth will begin to be an opinion. Reality will be shaped by those who know better and can explain things with a joke.
Like Clinton joking about the electric car to the auto-makers who are grimly squirming in their seats, unable to look anyone in the eye.
Is a one-world system all that hard to conceive?
Is man evolving to better and greater heights?
WKTEC is an important film. Far too important to be ignored.
The film not only chronicles yet one more travesty in modern American history, unwittingly, it documents the direction in which this world is traveling by oil.
And that power is ordered.
TL Farley,
author,
When Now Becomes Too Late,
Distant Reaches
When Now Becomes Too Late Kindle -- When Jesus elopes with His Bride.
When Now Becomes Too Late -- Hard copy for hands-on research.
Distant Reaches -- True-Life Adventures in Ireland, Boston, Cape May and on The North Atlantic.
Summary of Who Killed the Electric Car?
IN 1996, ELECTRIC CARS BEGAN TO APPEAR ON RAODS ALL OVERCALIFORNIA. THEY WERE QUIET FAST, PRODUCED NO EXHAUST & RAN WITHOUT GASOLINE. 10 YEARS LATER, THESE FUTURISTIC CARS WEREALMOT ENTIRELY GONE. WHAT HAPPENED? WHY SHOULD WE BE HAUNTED BY THE GHOST OF THE ELECTRIC CAR?Similar DVD Movies
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