Last night Wonder Boy and I checked out Fresh at the Parkland Theatre. Both the movie and the theater were a great find.
Parkland Theatre shows movies at only $2 a ticket and the concession stand is stocked with lots of $1 items. The inside was a hoot with stadium seating, super cushy seats and a laser show that went on for the entire time before the movie started playing.
Fresh, a movie we were referred to by Songbird, talks about eating fresh and local food. It was minimal on the shock value and didn’t show too many disgusting images of animals being treated horribly, thanks goodness. That or I’ve just been desensitized to some of this video clips. There was one brief period early in the film involving baby chicks where my eyes welled up and I decided I would leave the theater if it continued. Fortunately it did not.
Throughout the movie the focus alternated between people who used antibiotics, chemicals and just plain stupid farming practices to make our food and then people who farm organically and sustainably. At the end of the movie, Wonder Boy and I both felt inspired to work a little harder to buy food at local farmers markets (there are plenty in the area — after all, we live in the Midwest), supporting restaurants that also buy local, organic food and to eat less processed junk.
One man interviewed in the movie talked about his roommate college in, someone who wasn’t from the US, who said to him, “You know what Americans fear the most? Inconvenience.”
Very true words.
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