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Plot Summary
Alternately teasing and terrifying, Strange Culture molds one man's tragedy into an engrossing narrative. In 2004, Steve Kurtz (Thomas Jay Ryan), an associate professor of Art at the State University of New York, Buffalo, was preparing an exhibition on genetically modified food for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art when his wife, Hope (Tilda Swinton), died in her sleep of heart failure. But when paramedics noticed petri dishes and other scientific paraphernalia in the home, they alerted the F.B.I.; within hours Mr. Kurtz found himself suspected of bioterrorism, his home quarantined and his wife's body removed for autopsy. Filmmaker Lynn Hershman-Leeson bends the nonfiction form to her own unconventional will. The result is a fascinating collage of re-enactments, news clips and interviews, illuminating not only the implications of corporate meddling in the food chain but the ease with which innocent civilian behavior can become a suspicious act.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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91%- Reviews Counted: 22
- Fresh: 20
- Rotten: 2
- Average Rating: 7.4/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Somewhere between documentary and dramatization, fact and impression, Strange Culture molds one mana(TM)s tragedy into an engrossing narrative experiment.
Fresh: Younger filmmakers should be looking to Hershman Leeson for lessons on how to reinvent old forms while at the same time telling an urgently topical story.
Fresh: As sad as it is to realize that youth activism in this country is dead, it's sadder still to find yourself agreeing that they have a point.
Fresh: A strange and compelling Kafka-esque account of an American artist caught up in Bush's war on terror.
Customer Reviews
The Bush Era
It is not the best documentary ever made, in a sense, it almost feels like a made for television reporting. It is not even a good documentary, but the message is so scary and important that it is a must documentary. It illustrate how it is not a good idea to handle any human being overwhelming power, without considering first that it will be used to fend off fear and accommodate prejudices. This used to be the only country in the world where you could say pretty much anything about government and the president elect. Now, you ponder if it is wise to comment on a documentary. That is the George W. Bush era. PS. No. I do not want to overthrown the government, but I am voting Obama and hope they clean up house from the people who are selling the constitution of this country in the name of God. A better God. Our kind of God. Ironic as hell.
must watch
something must be done world wide contamination even china watching what it does, and europe has labels on there food. we're being poisoned !!!!!!!
DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY
Left leaning propaganda.
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