We recently got an advanced copy of the movie “The End of the Line” which is being shown on Thursday April 21st during Earth Week on campus. Read our review below:
Rupert Murray’s “The End of the Line” documentary casts the question; are our oceans being overfished? I believe it answers it with brutal and frightening clarity… start imagining a world without seafood. At current rates, the ocean’s stocks will be depleted by the middle of the century, the film reveals. Touted the inconvenient truth on the ocean, this little-known, barely-screened documentary present’s hard evidence and marine experts in a neatly wrapped take-home message for every shopper. Based on the book by UK Daily Telegraph environmental reporter Charles Clover, smart, industrial and high-tech “fishing” of the ocean by big corporations and rich hunters is exposed in all its bloody glory as the far too effective machine that it is.
This is a hard-hitting film dressed in graphic images and powerful, unarguable statistics already being felt by poor coastal communities working inside a self-destructing industry. The film urges for a global reduction of fishing to prevent the industry from collapsing to a point where it is no longer viable or profitable. It also points the finger at democracy for not making the political changes that it must. This is a documentary that will change the way you think about seafood and give you the power of knowledge to make a change.
Anyone who sees this film will find it very hard to eat tuna in the same way again.
The End of the Line will be shown on Thursday April 21st at 6pm in the GSU 2nd floor conference auditorium.
