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The Unforeseen

  • 2007
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  • 1h 28min
PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
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The Unforeseen (2007)
Documentary

Añade un argumento en tu idiomaA documentary about the development around Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, and the environment's unexpected response to human interference.A documentary about the development around Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, and the environment's unexpected response to human interference.A documentary about the development around Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, and the environment's unexpected response to human interference.

  • Dirección
    • Laura Dunn
  • Guión
    • Wendell Berry
  • Reparto principal
    • Curtis Peterson
    • Gary Bradley
    • Willie Nelson
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  • PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
    7,0/10
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    • Dirección
      • Laura Dunn
    • Guión
      • Wendell Berry
    • Reparto principal
      • Curtis Peterson
      • Gary Bradley
      • Willie Nelson
    • 13Reseñas de usuarios
    • 36Reseñas de críticos
    • 76Metapuntuación
  • Ver la información de la producción en IMDbPro
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    • Premios
      • 1 premio y 2 nominaciones en total

    Vídeos1

    "The Unforeseen" Trailer
    Film Short 2:45
    "The Unforeseen" Trailer

    Imágenes8

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    Curtis Peterson
    • Self
    Gary Bradley
    Gary Bradley
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    Willie Nelson
    Willie Nelson
    • Self
    Ann Richards
    Ann Richards
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    Roy Butler
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    William Greider
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    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
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    Bill Bunch
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    • Self
    Robert Redford
    Robert Redford
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    Marshall Kuykendall
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    Raymond Slade
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      • Laura Dunn
    • Guión
      • Wendell Berry
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    9tparsons-83655

    Awesome Doc

    I've watched a lot of docs and this is one of my favorites. I won't get all into the plot as others have dissected way too thoroughly here, but if you enjoy slow, melancholy, euphoric docs then you will love this one. It's very reflective of our time and the Wendell Berry poems paired with the Album Leaf music is wonderful. Very well made. It's a real artpiece of doc cinema for it's time.
    1karlcchen

    Disorganized information patched up together, confused of what is it trying to say

    What's the movie trying to say, what's the issue it trying g to raise? If you know nothing about the subject/place and just watch this movie, you will never know. Just like another engineer finish another Operational Manual - only good for people only know how to operate the machine.

    The movie should be clear and self-sufficient for people know nothing about the current issue(s) so people know what it is trying to say.

    This movie is only good for people already know about the issue and want to get more information.

    Karl
    8Chris Knipp

    Where's the big picture? Where's the plan?

    'The Unforeseen' considers the issue of land developers as a source of eco-disaster. These are the guys who come in, acquire chunks of property, subdivide them, establish access to services, water, electricity, roads, and so on, and build houses for people to live in. As a documentary this one, for which Robert Redford is an executive producer (with cultish filmmaker Terrence Malick) and also a meandering talking head, provides a worthwhile new angle, with some pungent characters and some interesting personal stories. Unfortunately this lacks some of the scope and perspective of other ecology-related documentaries and seems to get sidetracked more than once. It has a certain built-in balance since one of its main characters is a failed developer whose tears evoke sympathy. But in view of the magnitude of the issues involved, it would seem that those who herald 'The Unforeseen' as superior to a film of the scope and urgency of Davis Guggenheim's 'An Inconvenient Truth' have gone a bit overboard.

    Are developers bad? Environmentalists seem to think so. Some radicals even just set fire to a row of "green" McMansions under construction in the state of Washington. Frontier-oriented advocates of traditional free capitalism are emphatically in the opposite camp. To them, anything that enables people to exploit and own the land is good. Development is the essence of American free enterprise, a God-given right, what we're here for. Getting rich doing it is the essential American dream.. And so is owning your own little house with its garage and its lawn and its picket fence. Real estate people, and this film, give scant consideration to the issue of indigenous peoples and their relationship to the land.

    What this film does consider is how developers habitually disregard considerations of proper land use and future degradation, particularly of water resources. Laura Dunn's researches focus on Austin, Texas, a partial childhood home of Robert Redford (he tells us), a college town, a cultural and music center (Willie Nelson speaks for that) and a community whose obvious liberal, preservationist tendencies led its citizens to lock horns with developers in the 1980's, when growth opportunities arose for the appealing, pleasant city and its environs. At the center of the story is a developer named Gary Bradley, whose 4,000-acre Circle C Ranch luxury housing development--conceived as far back as 1980--was set to derail Barton Springs, a large creek near the city linked to the major aquifer of the region. An anti-Bradley Austin website called "Make Gary Pay" calls him "a consummate hustler" and documents how for close to thirty years he has waged war on the city of Austin in cooperation with lobbyists and Good Old Boys of the Texas state legislature.

    Central to the citizens' and environmentalists' objection to Bradley's project is its indifference to and damage to the regional aquifer. Wikipedia defines an aquifer as "an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, silt, or clay) from which groundwater can be usefully extracted using a water well." Describing residential land development early in the film, Bradley clearly sees big hunks of land simply as a blank canvas on which the creative real estate guy can draw a lovely new picture. He overlooks what's underneath that canvas--such as aquifers. Another factor the film reveals is that development exhausts energy sources and removes land from agricultural use.

    Bradley's voice, rather surprisingly, tends to dominate the film. We learn how he met with consolidated civic objections to his project when it came up for city approval. But later through the efforts of a lobbyist, whose voice we hear, his face sinisterly hidden as he methodically assembles a model bomber plane, a state law protecting projects like Bradley's--allowing them to override new laws and be subject only to ones in effect when they began (it's called "grandfathering") was vetoed in the early 1990's by the then governor Ann Richards, who had a sympathetic ear for environmental activists. But in 1995 George W. Bush became governor and the law was reinstated. And then around the same time Bradley came a cropper through debts he couldn't pay off and lost everything. He fell afoul of the late 1980's-early1990's loan company collapses. His attempt to file bankruptcy was finally defeated just a couple of years ago--right when his mother died, he tells the camera, tears streaming down his face. In fact, he's still a player and a thorn in the side of Austin.

    What's the lesson of all this? That real estate developers are foolish? Bradley admits in an audio of the bankruptcy trial that he was miserable at accounting. But not all developers are, though they may be prone to grandiosity--and an excessive sense of entitlement. As we see, they think they should be compensated when new laws lessen the profits they originally expected from a given piece of land. They don't all try to launch a major development right in the midst of a community as liberal and green-activist as Austin, Texas.

    Okay, if putting a self-serving and rapacious capitalist in charge of land development, though American as apple pie, is not a foresighted approach, what are the alternatives? Unfortunately Dunn's film doesn't provide strong enough voices in this area. We get to see concerted action of citizens both for and against development: the protectionists are impassioned; the free enterprise/property rights advocates are strident flag-wavers. But the voices for an alternative are feeble. Redford talks about how things were nicer in the past, quieter, more wholesome. 'Rolling Stone' essayist William Greider refers to the idea of reworking existing housing to accommodate new populations as a better way, but the idea's too vague. Nor does the Wendell Berry poem, "The Unforeseen" contribute more than a ringing tone of ruefulness. What we need is analysis, scope, and plans.
    10kbaxters

    "The Unforeseen" is worth seeing, a beautiful film that is poetic and mesmerizing and at the heart very sad, you feel a great loss watching this very personal film.

    I just saw "The Unforeseen" yesterday in Los Angeles at the AFI film festival. It is worth seeing, not preachy but really makes you understand how developers have such different interests(money)than you and I do. What happened in Austin has happened everywhere and I think the best message from the film is that we cannot go back and change the damage done but it is clearly time to take a mature look going forward in the future at each of our responsibility and stewardship for the land and nature, we must find a balance. Laura Dunn made a beautiful film that is poetic and mesmerizing and at the heart very sad, you feel a great loss watching this very personal film.
    10enviromac

    Taking on the American Dream

    I saw this film previewed on PBS' NOW. It is just wonderful that someone has done a film about this issue. I love that the director took the time to learn about alternative views. This type of film making has the possibility of bringing people together to work on consensus.

    In an interview with the Austinist, Laura Dunn states:

    Unfortunately, the "American Dream" has become owning a house with a yard and a fence around it. And these days, unfortunately, that house has to be 2300 square feet, and you have to have a green lawn, and there are all these connotations and associations that are built into the American Dream that--given where we are in terms of our environment...are totally at odds with a sustainable future.

    We desperately need to have this film screened in Sacramento, California. The pressures we face from development are enormous. Does anyone know who I can contact about this?

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    • Curiosidades
      Terrence Malick, a long time resident of Austin, originally conceived the idea for the film.
    • Pifias
      A latter animation showing water lines becoming blood vessels has a noticeable shift. It appears a duplicate frame has been accidentally inserted.
    • Citas

      Gary Bradley: Nature in your life, very quickly becomes God. A God who gives great abundance at times... and takes everything away at times.

      [on growing up on a farm]

    • Créditos adicionales
      The film's credits play alongside a series of photographs. Contribution photographers are listed at the end of the sequence. Photos were from various Flickr accounts and many names are actually Flickr members' nicknames.
    • Conexiones
      Features Frontline: The Great American Bailout (1991)
    • Banda sonora
      Spiegel Im Spiegel
      Written by Arvo Pärt

      Performed by Vadim Gluzman abd Angela Yoffe

      Courtesy of BIS Records

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • enero de 2007 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Sitio oficial
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    • Idioma
      • Inglés
    • Títulos en diferentes países
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    • Localizaciones del rodaje
      • Barton Springs, Austin, Texas, Estados Unidos(Swimming Pool)
    • Empresas productoras
      • Despair
      • Two Birds Film
      • Sundance Institute
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    • Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
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    • Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
      • 2496 US$
      • 2 mar 2008
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      • 90.287 US$
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      • 1.85 : 1

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