Cultural Event #1

A majority of my cultural events surrounded around the American Conservation Film Festival. What sets these different days apart is that the films I went to had some sort of theme attached to it.

One of the few films I was able to watch the first night was called Monsters, It had to do with a woman trying to shut down coal-burning plants in Chicago. These plants had killed several people over the years because of various life-threatening diseases that these people had gotten. The main character herself had lived near these plants since she was 9. We discover that she was diagnosed with cancer because of the plants. The film spans several years as she tried to shut down these plants.

It wasn't a very long movie, but it was a good eye opener to what the long term effect these coal-burning plants can have on a community. Seeing this woman and others around her try to get these plants shut down seemed very heroic and it was interesting to see them not give up after various failed attempts