Silent Running

Bruce Dern

I had remembered this as pretty silly...but that was mostly due to the Joan Baez warbling whilst watching camera pans of the world's last forest. The save-the-trees, save-the-whales message was front and center but other than those two musical interludes the film still worked well.

Dern gave a strong performance mostly talking to himself. The set design was wonderfully retro-futuristic. The project holds up, barely, as a relic of the time when the establishment of Earth Day was seen as evidence mankind could actually survive the fouling of its own nest. Yeah...right...

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