Collapse

Dog Woof

R2 DVD

Collapse is a bewildering and fascinating look at our possible future. It is a dark and foreboding vision and one made by a man who had been making predictions for many years, most of which have come true.

For ten years prior to the Wall Street collapse Michael Ruppert warned what was coming and nobody listens. Now that he has a forum, he has more to say and it isn’t nice. Oil, currency, overpopulation are all going to have dire effects and technology and the civilization we have built on it will heave a sigh of exhaustion and then pass into the night.

Director Chris Smith didn’t actually plan this documentary and that is what makes it even more unusual. He was researching the CIA’s involvement in drug smuggling in the eighties and came across Ruppert, a former L.A. Cop. The more he spoke to Ruppert the more interesting he found him. This was not a conspiracy nut but someone who seemed to have their finger on the pulse of what was going on.

Smith decided to record a number of long interviews with Ruppert and from them create a documentary. While this is certainly an interesting way to undertake such a task i.e. film a man in a room talking clearly and clearly about what is happening in the world, it works. There is something edgy, uncomfortable, even confronting about the whole thing. It is so brutally honest you can’t help but be challenged. The only real nod Smith makes to doco style is the occasional intercut of archival images. This is raw documentary making at its most interesting and thought provoking.

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