What can a 1989 Indian film about biomedicine, plumbing and the freedom of the press tell us about the Ipcc report?
Want to see a film about evidence based policy and plumbing? Londoners who do are in luck, because Satyajit Ray's 1989 film Ganashatru is currently playing at the BFI in London, and a version of the play it is based on – Ibsen's En Folkefiende, or An Enemy of the People – is also showing at the Albany in Depford. The script makes for a good read on its own though, and there are several translations to choose from.
It's a story that gets around. It's supposed to have partly inspired Jaws. There is something about this play that resonates. Probably because it's not entirely about evidence-based policy and plumbing, but rather the intersection of state, individuals and personal relationships, shot through with tensions between science, belief and politics. There's already been...
Want to see a film about evidence based policy and plumbing? Londoners who do are in luck, because Satyajit Ray's 1989 film Ganashatru is currently playing at the BFI in London, and a version of the play it is based on – Ibsen's En Folkefiende, or An Enemy of the People – is also showing at the Albany in Depford. The script makes for a good read on its own though, and there are several translations to choose from.
It's a story that gets around. It's supposed to have partly inspired Jaws. There is something about this play that resonates. Probably because it's not entirely about evidence-based policy and plumbing, but rather the intersection of state, individuals and personal relationships, shot through with tensions between science, belief and politics. There's already been...
- 9/25/2013
- by Alice Bell
- The Guardian - Film News
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