One Man, One Cow, One Planet (2007)
One man, One cow, One planet exposes globalization and the mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and human disaster. But across India marginal farmers are fighting back. By reviving biodynamics an arcane form of agriculture, they are saving their poisoned lands and exposing the bio-colonialism of multinational corporations. One man, One cow, One planet tells their story through the teachings of an elderly New Zealander many are calling the new Gandhi.
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SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
Don't listen to the negative reviews
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
"One Man, One Cow, One Planet" is the story about how one man can show the way forward.If you love movies about the green and sustainable world, as I do, this movie is worth adding to your list. It's about solving the riddle of how to feed the world, in this case through biodynamic farming practices as demonstrated in India.A basic understanding of both corporate agriculture and biodynamic farming will help you better appreciate the movie. Otherwise, you may not understand why farmers in India are setting themselves on fire, and biodynamic farming practices might be too challenging and perplexing for the typical Western mindset to take in.On a broader level, this is a positive movie about a real person, doing real and important work, while gaining traction and a following.This would be a good movie for a "green film series". To bring it down to the local level, look for biodynamic farmers at your local farmer's market.
a very simple film about a man from New Zealand who's remaining years are spent preaching the gospel of "biodynamic" farming to the farmers of India. (Most of us would refer to it organic or natural farming methods.) The farmers of India were a "beneficiary" of the "Green Revolution" that sold them seeds, chemicals to fertilize, chemicals to kill pests, etc. According to the film, the result was a bunch of farmers who were losing money, had health issues, and who were forced to buy the same seeds from the same big bad company. They decided to turn to biodynamic farming - something they'd traditionally done, but after 50+ years of the Green Revolution, they'd probably forgotten how.The film is pretty heavy handed. It's not a journalism piece. It just shows you the stories of the man, his success stories, and some interesting tidbits about the agricultural industry that most North Americans probably no nothing about."Food Inc." is a much more thorough examination of this same topic, but I find this one easier to connect with, and a lot more uplifting in tone.8/10
This film told me, or made me tell myself, that sometimes you have to do the thing that's right, and no matter if it involves "just" stirring cow dung in a bucket, you are going to enjoy it more than anything.It made me wonder if those people working at the fields realize that they are part of this bright thing that is starting to happen everywhere.. goddesses giving life to earth.. And no, I wasn't high on anything other than the atmosphere of this film, when I though that. Well, watch this (again) and get more clues to these "riddles"..Here's a few current suggestions for more sources of inspiration on other topics, Slajov Zizek, Stefan Molyneux, Jacque Fresco, Rick Strassman, Neal Goldsmith, Rick Doblin, Dean Radin and Alex Grey.-Peace, love and understanding (of biodynamics and similar stuff).