Into Eternity
Michael Madsen
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"This hiding place should never be disturbed" In Finland the worlds first permanent repository for high-level radioactive waste is being hewn out of solid rock a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last through natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes for 100,000 years. Captivating, wondrous and extremely frightening, this feature documentary takes viewers on a journey never seen before into the underworld and into the future.
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Educationally worrying!
This film is a testament to our children and our childrens children. This should be filmed in every single school in every single nation across the globe. Although some of us may disagree with the use of nuclear technologies, we are all of us now responsible for the waste that has been created. It is all of us that must bear the price to try and inform all future generations that not everything in the ground is safe or can be used.
Michael Madsen has given us a message that we should share with every child, who in turn now has the responsibility to pass onto theirs. It should not be taken lightly, the US, UK and all other nuclear nations listen up, take heed and deal with this horrific issue of nuclear waste material.
Well done to Michael Madsen and his highly unique way of showing us the reality of our own failures.*****
An other-worldly subject in a bleak, Scandinavian setting
An undertaking with timescales outside of those normally associated with a single human endeavour like the building of an airport, or even the pyramids. Those engaged on it now are highly unlikely to be around to see it come to fruition (an event predicted to occur well into the 22nd century). The most fascinating aspect is not the civil engineering one – burying hundreds of thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste in sealed tunnels, deep in the 1.8 billion year old Finnish bedrock – but the need to communicate the danger across 100,000 years to our far distant ancestors – a feat made necessary by the very long half-life of the deadly radioactive waste products. Since most solutions being considered – covering the surface landscape with huge, forbidding concrete thorns or placing a series of ever-more alarming warning signs – are more likely to attract the attention of an inquisitive, future human race than to deter it, then other, more prosaic methods are being debated. No consensus appears to be emerging… And still the tunnels advance slowly down, in a series of deafening dynamite blasts, dust, drilling, cold water and men and women toiling in the underground gloom.
Documentary maker Michael Madsen’s technique incorporates a series of grandiose but often familiar visual tropes reaching back to Koyaanisqatsi, some annoyingly self-conscious pieces directly to camera, a melancholic narration aimed at our future intruder-selves and a very direct interviewing technique that pushes past what we imagine to be the cool, Scandinavian reserve of the protagonists to explain the reasons for and uncover the unanswered questions to an (outwardly, anyway) extremely self-confident and quite unique mega-project.
stunning!
probably the best made documentary i have ever seen, absolutley amazing!!
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