Cultural Event #2

The 2^nd night of the festival I saw 2 films that were part of the night’s theme,

Frack Night. The first film was called FrackNation.It deals with a journalist who dives into the issue of fracking. The interesting thing about this film is that it is a pro-fracking film. The journalist beings questioning several anti-fracking people when it seems that they are suppressing true facts that could be harmful to their cause. This film felt like a breath of fresh air for me, since most documentaries always seem  to focus on the negative side of an issue and tell us "THIS IS BAD. DON'T SUPPORT THIS!" This film actually looked at some of the positives (however few there are) of fracking and how it would affect our lives. 

            The other film I saw was Dear Governor Cuomo. This film was about the Governor of New York lifting a ban on fracking in the state. In protest, musicians, scientists, actors and other staged a concert/protest in Albany. There was music and stories’ being told of how much fracking has affected people around the country. While I got the point of the film and commend the effort, I felt the movie was actually too long. I like concert films, but it felt like the film put too much on the songs from the concerts themselves and not the message the protestors were trying to get across. When you watch someone perform a song, you listen to the whole song. I got bored with the songs after a while and almost turned out. If the songs were cut down a bit, I would’ve liked this movie a lot more, but I got bored listening to these songs all the way through. I wanted to watch a movie, not watch a concert.