Catch this movie when it runs through the art movie houses/movie festivals! It's called "Manufactured Landscapes" and it follows photographer Edward Burtynsky all over the world as he hunts for the industrial landscape, parts of the earth changed by humans.
This is the most COMPLETE movie about globalization, because it takes you to all sorts of places in the before and after of consumer products made in China, where e-waste goes to get recycling, to where ships go to die, and even shows the progress of the the Three river gorges dam in China.
The greatest thing about this movie is that it never makes any preachy "Gore-acle"-esque statement about the end of the workd, the documentary just shows you how the photographer, in his own lifestyle and consumption choices, searches for the beginning and the end of the resources used by the life cycle of consumer products and an American middle class lifestyle. The photos he creates are JAW DROPPING, so beautiful yet so sad. SEE IT! Those in Boston can go to the Museum of Fine Arts.
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