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Dokumentti perheen kokeilusta pienentää hiilijalanjälkeä vuoden ajaksi. Hauska ja herättää ajatuksia. Tuntuu kyllä siltä että Webster tekee tahallaan tyhmyyksiä jotta saisi enemmän tapahtumia elokuvaan (ajelee mm. 300 km reissuja aidon biodieselin perässä).
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/26/23
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Finnish documentary about cutting off all oil consumption by not buying plastic stuff and overall cutting the use of whatever pollutes. It's fairly similar to "No Impact Man" although definitely lighter in terms of what was done in order to bring down the environmental impact. Whereas NIM went for zero emissions, the Webster family only cut their's by half. There were some pretty weird stuff in their planning though and it wasn't really that thorough.
Some hilarious moments as well, such as the mother cycling to a store at 6am to buy candy (wrapped in plastic of course) for the kid's story time session in the morning.
If nothing else, it at least shows that cutting your consumption is mostly a personal hurdle and has more to do with our comfort zones than any exceedingly hard task or effort.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/01/23
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an honest description of an oil-free experiment aka life without any oil-based products.. and a low carbon lifestyle.. carried out by a normal middle-class family living in Espoo, Finland
I can see myself using this as teaching material about environmental ethics and contemporary society's values
I can recommend this to anyone who's interested in environmental affairs and the normal (Western) family's CO2 emission load. The film's entertaining and educational without being (too) judgmental
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02/11/23
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Living without oil and plastic...how hard could it be??? Watch this, then you know...
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/11/23
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An interesting experiment, even if John did take it to ridiculous lenghts at a few points: throwing away some of their completely usable plastic things, for example... Hello? How's that ecological?
The movie not just about how to survive a year with as little oil as possible, it was about how doing that affects the family and daily life. It sure seemed to put a strain on their relationship, for one. The kids took the experiment better, and I loved their comments on the matter.
I was left to wonder how much of the film was real and how much was acted, if any. Considering how reluctant Anu was towards the experiment from the beginning, I suppose she must really love her husband to still have accepted his project... well, not like she had much of a choice, it seemed.
Anyway, the subject is an important one, and their experiment was in my opinion brave and respectable - I hope they maintain the good new habits they learned, and that people watch this film and start to think about the alternatives and choices.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/17/23
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Important documentary on very acute issue from the perspective of an (almost) ordinary (upper) middle class family. It shows how we are trapped in our consumption patterns and how it seems that we do not have choice if we want to change the patterns. However, the document shows that change is actually possible despite of situation comedy arising from stubbornness in concentrating on difficult things instead of the easy things in the reduction of the CO2 emissions. In the same time when decreasing their carbon footprint the family members also find that slowing time the rhythm where needed does not lower the quality of life. Important movie that speaks its message very well out.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/13/23
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