Interreflections (2020)

Interreflections: Directed by Peter Joseph. With Shiah Luna, Goldie Hoffman, Chris Silcox, Mikael Mattsson. In a quest for a new, more humane society, a counter-culture revolution takes the world by storm. In the first of the InterReflections Trilogy, we look back to the modern world and wonder how it was we managed to survive as long as we had.

“What I loved about Zeitgeist Moving Forward is that there were many voices of people who brought their own way of speaking, their own perspective and insights and then there was a lot of time spent on a possible solution to many issues: The Venus Project. Over the last few years since, Iu0026#39;ve become disenfranchised by the allure of the naïve vision, though I still agree with developing an open source commons of resource sharing somehow.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eInterreflections, by contrast, is just one voice: Peter Joseph for 2 hours and 45 minutes. This whole confused film feels like one badly structured essay spoken by a few random actors to give the illusion of diverse voices, covering that fact that this is clearly a single minded ego train of one man. There were moments I enjoyed – I liked it when he made references to real research, especially when talking about inequality. And I kind of enjoyed some moments in u0026quot;the great debateu0026quot;. I must give credit to the incredible effort put into the special effects and obviously the huge amount of time and work put in to create this film. Overall, I didnu0026#39;t hate the film, but letu0026#39;s be clear, it was bad. It was jarring, slow and confusing. Almost the entire film was unstructured cynicism with the last 5 minutes for u0026quot;the solutionu0026quot; – a city that magically appears out of nowhere and is loosely based on a resource based economy, though is incredibly shallow because there is literally only 5 minutes to briefly introduce a slice of utopia and even more naïve than the Venus Project because this wonderful city just literally gets plopped into the ocean by some group of futuristic activists. I mean seriously. I thought this would be like a development from Moving Forward, but it was a serious step back. If Peter Joseph wants to stay relevant he needs to connect with the real world, not retreat further into cynicism and hide behind a totally shallow veil of utopia.”