This homemade documentary is the video equivalent of an Internet blog, being one young, aspiring filmmaker's attempt to put his fears concerning the military-industrial complex out into the world, hoping to inspire change. But director Daniel Reilly's amateur style (the film opens with him walking along a beach trying to look contemplative) and the fact that most of his sources come off as hippie types slouching around their living rooms work against his scary warning about the race toward space-based weapons and the stated goal of neoconservative groups to achieve "full-spectrum dominance" over the world. Worse, his preaching-to-the-choir presentation is based more on opinion (his voiceovers often include "I believe in...") than on hard facts gleaned from research. In short, A Space 4 Peace is not a film that will change minds about America's military ambitions (in fact, it actually makes much more powerful points about the systematic violation of protesters' First Amendment rights in scenes shot during a picket of Vandenberg Air Force Base), and those truly interested in learning about the dangers of space-based weapons should instead do what the filmmaker did: read the U.S. Space Command's Vision for 2020 and Loring Wirbel's Star Wars: U.S. Tools of Space Supremacy. Not a necessary purchase. Aud: C, P. (R. Blackwelder)
A Space 4 Peace
(2004) 38 min. DVD: $10. MacGregor Eddy (dist. by The AV Cafe). PPR. Volume 20, Issue 2
A Space 4 Peace
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