Rarely does a movie actively inspire its audience to take action as intensely as this year’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline, a film so realistic and procedural from the perspective of its radical climate activists that it caught the attention of the FBI. Directed by Daniel Goldhaber, who broke into the scene in 2018 with his cerebral Netflix horror Cam, this underrated eco-thriller uses the structural beats of heist and Western films to craft a deliciously entertaining feature that pulls no punches with regard to the dangers of climate change and the moral ambiguities of sabotage for a righteous cause. While protest movies tend to contain their commentary to historical events, using the context of the modern cultural climate to discuss the outdated ways of the old, Goldhaber’s sophomore feature is unique in that it doesn’t just emphasize the present, but the future as well.
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Author: Orestes Adam