Description:
The year is 2055. The Earth is devastated. One man (Oscar® nominee Pete Postlethwaite, The Usual Suspects, Clash of the Titans) remains in "The Global Archive," a vast storage facility protecting all of humanity's collective achievements in art, science, music and literature, as well as pickled specimens of thousands of rescued animal and plant species. Based on mainstream scientific projections from the present day, The Age Of Stupid focuses on the archivist as he tries to work out why we didn't save ourselves while we still had the chance. He flips through a startling array of news clips, interviews and scientific reports from our current time, each its own warning sign of the destruction that is looming if we don't change our current consumption practices. Through the clips, we meet a variety of individuals - a climbing instructor at Mont Blanc, a girl coming of age in the devastated Niger River Delta, an activist campaigning for wind power in the U.K., an oil-industry worker impacted by Hurricane Katrina - who caution us about the impacts of our profligacy, but all face a culture that refuses to alter its habits, and hence knowingly destroys its only home.
Special Features:
- 50-minute making-of documentary
- Pete Postlethwaite Ambushing hte UK's Minister for Climate Change
- 8 deleted scenes
- 8 extended interviews
- 8 short climate films
- Crew commentary
- Trailers
- Right to reply from Alvin, Fernand and Piers
- Launch of the 10:10 campaign...and more!