‘Rebuilding Paradise’: Film Review

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Ron Howard, over the last decade, has directed a handful of documentaries (all of them about popular musicians), and maybe it’s no surprise that he has turned out to be an ace craftsman of the nonf…

documentary, and not just because it’s about the aftermath of a devastating catastrophe. In this movie, Howard more or less abandons the classical mode of nonfiction storytelling for a style that’s more loose and random and verité; it’s as if he was trying to make his version of a Fred Wiseman film. There are, of course, advantages to this approach . Yet there are disadvantages as well. “” is a movie that shows us a great deal without necessarily exploring what it shows.

We used to refer to fires like this one as “natural disasters,” but the taking-off point for “Rebuilding Paradise” is the perception that they have become, in our time, unnatural disasters. Climate change helped to turn the landscape where Paradise was built into a dry-woods tinderbox. So the fulcrum of the movie is its environmental message: the notion that this kind of community-gutting catastrophe is now happening, all over the world, to a far greater degree than it ever has before.

 

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I’m no longer a contractor, I’m no fire expert, start by moving tree lines and brush further away from flammable structures ?

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