Looking for a calling
We went to see Dive last night, shown by the Afrikan Film Festival above the Fair Grinds Coffehouse and it was refreshingly well done. Of course, it brought up a lot of the same reaction I had to reading Michael Pollan’s food diatribes, in particular the open letter he wrote to the President elect printed in the New York Times. We’re caught in a trap could have been the title of either – the film or Pollan’s letter.
When you look at this on the surface, the enormity of the absurdity is so overwhelming it makes you scratch your head and say, whatyagonnado? But this guy, the director, who majored in theology and art, and wanted to make a film which turned him into an activist has the right idea – a drop of water creates a ripple of change.