Two years ago we presented in METALOCUS this video about the American suburbs, which, thanks to Ecumenópolis, we will see next week at the headquarters of COAC.
The End of Suburbia is a portrait of a dream which has been really expensive. This surprising documentary, directed by Gregory Greene, analyses the American Dream as rooted in mobility with the car, thanks to the cheap-oil period.
Since World War II, the US people have invested a lot in their suburbs, with the promise of economically accessible space, familiar life and progress.
The myth of "suburbanism" or "from the countryside to the city in forty minutes", mixed with the peak period of motor companies, creates this American dream in the postwar, the house with barbecue and a dog running around the kids.
The reality is not only an aesthetic and rude slap, but it is that the fossil energy resources are starting to erode; this utopia starts up to destroy as a playing cards castle and the dream, spread out to the rest of the planet, turns into a nightmare.
The End of Suburbia.
Gregory Greene.
Venue.- COAC auditorium hall. Pl. Nova 5. Barcelona. Spain.
Date.- 15th of July 2013, 19:00 - 22:00.
Director: Gregory Greene.
Duration: 78'.
Date: 2004.
Language: V. Castellano.
