Silent Running (1972) is an over the top environmentalist movie set in space. Bruce Dern is an ecologist in outer space growing forest and plant life to re-populate the earth. He hates on the fraternity boy spacemen, has an eagle land on his arm and feeds bunnies, all while being friends with technology (suitcase sized drones, robotic arms for pool and poker)... typical outer space ecologist activity.
I think it is worth 10 or 20 minutes to see these views from micro to macro scale as shots pull back from dewey flowers to trees to lights to geodesic dome to space freighter to space. Again, another movie with an individual fighting against the confines of "man" and searching for "another" way. In this movie, Vanishing Point and The Electric Horseman; the protagonist is also the antagonist. They search for individuality while being reminiscent of a time that has past, which makes them heroically cause trouble. Also, they are all connected to technology even though they are running from the current infra-structure... selected history. Plus, Bruce Dern gave me marathon training advice once at the Rose Bowl, so I always watch his movies.
trailer herepart 1 here
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