| A Sense of Wonder | ||
| Director: | Christopher Monger |  |
| Country: | USA | |
| Year: | 2008 | |
| Language: | English | |
| Principal Cast: | Kaiulani Lee | |
| Trailer: | www.asenseofwonderfilm.com | |
| SCREENING TIMES | |||
| Tuesday, March 24, 2009 | 7:15 PM | Brennan High School | Donations accepted |
Screened in partnership with Women's Studies, University of Windsor.
Panel Discussion to follow.
If Rachel Carson were alive today, no doubt she'd be vociferously writing about the Bush proposal to remove the moratorium on oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is perversely ironic, or perhaps simply perverse, that so many things that Carson fought for have become infinitely worse after her death. During her lifetime, her writing was translated into 26 different languages and lodged firmly at the top of the bestseller lists. Her book The Sea Around Us, catapulted her to enormous fame, but it was the publication of Silent Spring that ensured her legacy as the mother of the environmentalist movement.
Playwright Kaiulani Lee re-stages her one-woman play for director Christopher Monger and cinematographer Haskell Wexler, on the site of Carson's beloved cottage. Adapted from Carson's own writing, the film recreates the last year of her life, a period when she was fighting the chemical corporations as well as the cancer that ravaged her body. Lee brings the full force of Carson's considerable character to life, including her crisp diction and no-nonsense parenting style. It is the immediacy of her prose, whether describing the burnished autumnal glory of Maine or an evening spent searching for night-singing insects, that burns through and makes her enduring and passionate love of nature all the more tangible.
