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Movie ads are getting smarter these days
sounds like it’s the movie to see this year :~)
Even the right-wing reviewers who hate the premise admit it’s a well written film in the vein of heist thrillers.
It’s a really good movie. Not particularly useful if you actually want to destroy something - they were careful to get a consultant to make sure they didn’t break any laws or create liability for themselves or the studio. If you didn’t see it in theatre, you missed out! I’m really glad the feds are wringing their hooves over it, it deserved much better marketing. It is destined to become a cult classic.
Related, there’s actually a rundown on a bunch of the opsec problems with it: https://anarchist-archive.org/library/en/hakan-geijer-popsec-how-not-to-blow-up-a-pipeline
It’s a good story, and would be extremely bad to follow as a recipe. But it would be a good movie to watch with a very small group of like-minded friends.
The beauty of it is – the people you go with don’t have to be ‘like-minded.’ You can enjoy Oceans Eleven without endorsing theft, you can enjoy HTBUAP without endorsing sabotage. If your friends feel it crosses a line, that’s a very interesting post-film discussion: Why isn’t it disturbing for people to root against the ‘house’ in Oceans? Is it okay to break the law to get rich, but not to do it for justice?
FBI must not be familiar with the Streisand effect
Hey FBI…
Is that Barbie Streisands house?
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It’s a good movie, but like others have noted, this is not how you do it. 90% of blowing up a pipeline is community building, being able to get the gear you need and carry it out with a lot of people knowing and being able to trust that they won’t rat you out. But it turns out when you have a community like that, well, you don’t need to blow up the pipeline, you can just lobby the government.
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Yes, exactly this. The book by Andreas Malm had a review which read like “this book is less how to blow up a pipeline, and more why to blow up a pipeline”, and the movie is working on a metaphorical level to argue the case. You’re not meant to emulate it directly.
Lobbying is “begging for permission” from people who have been paid to not care. “Direct action gets the goods.”
Lobbying, protest, etc. These are effective. Money matters less than you think*. Often organising gets the job done.
- The US is a weird case there, but in general this holds.
Well, lobbying in the US means “bribing” and if you’re just going to talk to them without money in hand they don’t give a fuck. Since the film is set in the US, that kind of matters. Lobbying against oil anywhere in the world is basically just ignored. Again, direct action gets the goods.
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and violent video games inspire kids to become murderers
Wow, I really hope no one writes “How to Blow Up a Fractionating Column With a $20 Drone.” Pipelines are pretty easy to mass produce, but attacks on distillation towers like we’ve seen come out of Ukraine can knock out a refinery for years.
Boy, it sure would be a real shame if people did that sort of thing. Like tragic even. Hell I might even shed a tear! (If I’m chopping onions when I hear about it)
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I enjoyed the movie. I like how it shows concrete ways in which people can be affected by the matter at hand. Not a “polar bears on thin ice” or similar, but actual effects on everyday people (not that polar bears don’t matter)
It seems that government agencies recommend very good stories with their warnings and bans.
Great movie btw
Wouldn’t blowing up a pipeline just be like, an ecological disaster? Or is this a pipeline that isn’t active yet?
cool
