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“Do you hear your trees? They’re crying.” A righteous blast of indigenous fury, and a film that dares to take the actual practical reality of eco-terrorism deadly seriously. While the “kneejerk environmentalist from the south” busies himself with liberal guilt and a myopic faith in institutional processes, Arthur suddenly emerges from the First Nations reserve like the return of the repressed, long past the point of caring how to work within the logic imposed by the earth’s endlessly greedy oppressors. Imagining how to be in the world as opposed to being simply on top of it, feeling with it instead of the calculated economics of taking from it. “Yeah, those white guys might have done some serious damage.” If the film gradually turns into a live-wire nightmare, it’s only a shame the ending suddenly decides that nightmares are what well-intentioned liberals get to wake up from, as opposed to very real things we and are children are all stuck living in.
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