This is a great documentary. It even has pooping moose! (I realize that is not a draw for some of you, but as a person who hates winter and avoids anything cold, this was the only chance for me to ever see a moose in something approximating its natural habitat.)Filmmaker Michael Madsen (not the guy from the Tarantino movies) takes a look a the as-yet-unfinished nuclear waste disposal facility, Onkalo, in Finland. In particular, he raises the questions of how we responsibly communicate with people a hundred thousand years in the future, when the waste material will be safe once more, when we can't guarantee a common language or even if humans will be the only species to find these sites. 100,000 years ago, humans were barely even a species, much less the dominant one on Earth. Who knows what ten centuries will bring?
This was our companion piece to 2001 and I really liked this one a lot better. There's a lyrical, haunting quality to this film that stays long after it's over and I honestly can't say enough nice things about it.
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