You Need to See This Movie

You Need to See This Movie by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., December 6, 2012, ecowatch
Matt Damon and John Krasinski’s new film Promised Land answers the question of why even the poorest rural communities are standing up against fracking. Damon and Krasinki both co-wrote and star in the film. At a screening Tuesday night, Matt told me why the pair undertook this enterprise: Everyone knows that fracking poisons the air and water. We wanted to show how it tears apart local communities and subverts democracies and corrupts political leaders and eviscerates all the things that Americans value. … Damon plays a particularly convincingly landman, the gas industry’s front line magician whose job it is to deceive rural landowners into signing away their mineral rights for a song filled with empty promises. Any community that is seriously debating fracking ought to screen this film publicly. As we debate fracking in our state, every New Yorker owes it to go to their theaters Dec. 28 and see this extraordinary film.

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