Twenty years ago I travelled to this area and had the railbed pointed out to me and I couldn't believe that the rails were torn up. I was convinced that the whole area would have "opened up". Then I went back two years ago and found the powerline right of way sharing the roadside and making the countryside look like an industrial experiment gone bad. Don't get me wrong, I build powerlines for a living but I started questioning if "opening it up" was the best result for the region.
This movie shows the twists and turns that form our opinions and explains the issues very well. I am impressed with how she shows both sides of every point and lets us realize that there are no black and white answers.
Thanks Nettie for showing how complicated things can be.
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About as much fun as an aneurysm
dallion20 November 2017
Actually an aneurysm would be more fun. Do not waste 90 minutes of your life on this trashed up modern retelling of Koyaanisqatsi. I am a lesser person for having watched this. We are suppose to accept that this story is deep and meaningful because they had some nice cinematography. Give me a break. What ever happened to trying to entertain your audience. If you can't keep our attention then you can't deliver your message.
By the end of this I wanted everyone involved to just no longer exist.
By the end of this I wanted everyone involved to just no longer exist.
Visual spectacular that lost its way
ccorral4198 January 2017
Palm Spring International Film Festival. Director Nettie Wild recently won the Best Canadian Documentary Award for "Koneline" at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Totted as a spectacular visual experience covering the northwestern British Columbia landscape, the cinematography (Van Royko) is pretty until it becomes repetitive and mundane. Luckily, various Tahitian First Nation personalities are introduced into the film, and their lives and struggle to hold on to their beliefs while the rest of the world slowly penetrates their once peaceful land help move the film along. There is a political view point trying to be told here, but it just can't make it to the forefront - which is the point of the film according to Nettie. Highlights include the saving and transporting of the struggling salmon, and the filming of the placing of a transmission tower carried by a large helicopter. "Koneline" could have have lived up to it's cinematography hype had it possibly been in the hands of a director not so afraid to make a stand and/or had it focused in more a few of the stories characters. #psiff2017
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