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Michael Lost and Found (2017)
Doesn't really satisfy
Compelling topic, artfully done, but really doesn't dig into the topic enough to satisfy. As Benjie sits down with Michael and his wife, we are thrust into the middle of a conversation with no context or back story. We hope that the blanks will be filled in, but one scene gives way to another, and we feel no real continuity or fulfillment in what seems to be taking place just beyond a picket fence.
I can't criticize a film for being made on a shoestring budget or having a small crew, but I feel that even just some more thoughtful editing or perhaps some focus groups might have helped to tell what appears to be an interesting story that just didn't quite make it onto the screen.
Freedom (2011)
Infomercial
Unlike "The Big Fix", which I enjoyed very much for the expose that it is, "Freedom" comes off as nothing more than a paid advertisement for the ethanol lobby.
Freedom does a nice job of extolling the virtues of ethanol as a clean fuel, but ignores entirely competing alternative fuels. Where is the discussion of hybrids? EVs? Fuel cells? Anything? What about the potential problems of ethanol; reduced power, damage to incompatible engines, rising food prices, the controversial nature of corn subsidies? If JT truly believes that ethanol is the way of the future then I respect that, but let's have a discussion about it, instead of the total whitewash that this film is.
I gave it a generous rating of 3 because it's not entirely devoid of facts, however I can't ignore the dangerous one-sidedness of this corporate claptrap. Caveat emptor.