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'Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie' was shown at a special earthquake benefit screening at JCCC. I will probably be flamed by his fans for this review, but since it IS a movie, I will review it the way I would for any other film. It is difficult for a reviewer to criticize an environmental effort, especially a high profile activist like David Suzuki. It is otherwise excellent, among the best films of the year. My only issue with the film itself is the use of rapid zoom-ins and zoom-outs. It's hard not to come away feeling hugged goodbye, by a close friend you just met. I think it is perhaps this message that may be his most effective. Perhaps because of that, Suzuki has shared his life story, which is a story of love and loss. The feeling I come away with is a sense of a person having done his best over a lifetime, exceedingly well, and yet having to make peace with a world that seems determined to mostly ignore his urgent advice during his lifetime. Although I was familiar with Suzuki's work generally, I knew nothing of his background, and it is fascinating and revealing. We learn about the horrifying effect of Canada's Japanese internment camps and racism during WWII, his experiences during the black civil rights era in Tennessee, and how Suzuki's scientific interests shaped and were shaped by his life experiences. Equally interesting to the lecture, or maybe even more, is a biography of Suzuki, stopping off at significant points and places along his life's story. While a romantic notion, I think love is something humans and other animals create, not something inherent in matter. Second, Suzuki briefly speaks of the forces of nature (gravity, etc.) as love. The calm tone of the message undermines it, makes it not quite real. First, the urgency never really comes through in an emotional way. Still, there are two drawbacks to the lectures (although that doesn't necessarily detract from the film, which places the lecture in context of a biography). So let's choose better ones that reflect our actual values of place, home, family, friendship, the core of our lives. If our economic system is leading us to destruction, we must change it. Al Gore (An Inconvenient Truth), Michael Moore (Capitalism: A Love Story), and Mike Ruppert (Denial Stops Here, Collapse) have said this in other ways, but Suzuki makes it plain, firmly based in simple and unavoidable science. I applaud him for stating so clearly what so many others have kind of lead us up to, but not stated in quite this way. In the lecture portions, Suzuki gives the message we avoid, that steady economic growth ultimately means hastening our death. It's a weaving together of Suzuki's last lecture and a biography of Suzuki's life (although it can sometimes be premature to declare any work by a living human a "last".). If you don't know him, this film is an excellent way to learn about him, and the message he most wants to send you. This is a sort of bio-documentary, of the life of David Suzuki, well-known scientist, communicator, and environmentalist.