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  Review by Jamie

  Oil has the biggest ego as it narrates its rise to dominate industry, transportation and our very lives. Amidst its self-aggrandisement is an interesting snapshot of barren farmland giving way to oil wells, perhaps speaking to the hopes of some Dust Bowl era landowners.

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  Review by damfino99 ★★½

  Oil narrates its story, from its time hibernating underground to its uses above ground.

  
  Clearly influenced by the Soviet montage films but decidedly more American (and less accomplished). Our farms are no longer fruitful but there's hope - and employment and money - in the oil that lays beneath those fields. A Depression-era dream of industry and progress.

  
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