The deepest fear is of death, its otherness, the promise of facing the unknown. I’d been the victim of an online sexual predator, and my mother had developed epilepsy. Something about Brando’s utterance, the horror, really got to me. I don’t know if he was a fan of the screenwriter but I can’t help noting the similarity. My love of both cinema and philosophy were shaped in that classroom. A military brat, I had just moved there, and was a lonely soul. We had bonded and would spend my lunch period watching movies and documentaries about surfing. My history teacher had let me borrow the film in one of the piles of movies. I was 14, a freshman at a new school in northeastern North Carolina. Willard Ride the snake…to the lake…the ancient lake, baby….He’s old…and his skin is cold… And if his story is really a confession…then so is mine.” – Captain Benjamin J. “There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. How was it not supposed to push me right to the brink? How could I lick Apocalypse Now the way John Milius talked about licking Heart of Darkness with his screenplay? Maybe I can do it by telling a piece of the truth. Watching Francis Coppola groaning behind the scenes, I myself was feeling the pain of writing about this baby. Writing this, I thought it would kill me after a while. It really was the end, and had been for a very long time. Pulling out books that suddenly and cathartically make sense, digging through old school papers and seeing Apocalypse mentioned. I thought of myself as Willard (Martin Sheen), digging through Kurtz (Marlon Brando)’s dossier. Eliot, watching documentaries, listening to The End. That’s not entirely true, but it helped to consult as many poets as possible.I was on my way back into the jungle. Jim is currently making the rules on when it feels right to write about Apocalypse Now 2. On and on it plays, in and out, The End. “There’s danger on the edge of town.” You’re right, Jim Morrison. I’m like a voice crying out saying, “Please, it’s not working! Somebody get me off this.” – Francis Ford Coppola, from Hearts of Darkness 1 What I have to admit is that I don’t know what I’m doing. And the reason I’m doing it is out of desperation, cause I have no rational way to do it. Watch the documentary here.And I am feeling like an idiot having set in motion stuff that doesn’t make any sense, that doesn’t match, and yet I am doing it. The Conversation: Apocalypse Cow: documentary’s vision for the future of food could leave farming in the past The Cattle Site: NFU Responds to 'Apocalypse Cow' Documentary Meat Management: Criticism of Channel 4’s ‘Apocalypse Cow’ documentaryĬivil Eats: In the Rush to Solve Climate Change with Lab-Based Foods, Don’t Write off Farming Telegraph: Natural England beef over 'anti-meat' TV after Channel 4 show that called for end to all farming (this article contains a roundup of reactions from stakeholders including the Soil Association, the Food Ethics Council and Natural England)įood Navigator: ‘Cultured meat is fool’s gold’: Environmentalists lock horns over controversial documentary Inews: Apocalypse Cow, Channel 4, review: Whether inspiring or enraging, a fascinating look at Britain's food futureįeedback: Apocalypse Cow and techno-saviours? Time we thought about people & planet, not products Reactions to the documentary were mixed, including: He estimates that the Solar Foods process, if powered by solar panels, could produce enough protein for everyone on Earth using an area the size of Ohio. He describes the bacterial flour produced by Finnish company Solar Foods, claiming that this process produces biomass around ten times more efficiently than through photosynthesis. Monbiot explains his reasoning in the column Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet.
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