A one-sided argument is called propaganda

Maybe watch the movie first. It actually gives a balanced view of both sides of the coin.

I simply am not there...

... and a movie that doesn't have a perspective is called bland... Somebody else is free to come along and make a 'pro-fracking' movie, to counterbalance any effect that this may have.




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One sided arguments aren't necessarily propaganda, nor is propaganda necessarily one sided. Propaganda is just deliberately spreading negative info with designs on harming a specific person, group, idea, whatever.

Whether or not this film was propaganda is sort of up in the air. To me, it seemed to me to cast a negative light more on corporate malpractices than fracking per say. I mean he even closed with the "I don't know that this is gonna happen here" line, after he found it all out.

Regardless you stand on the possible topic the film as a message was weak, and the film as a film, also on the weak side, IMO.

Dear retarded OP,

Many times movies and TV shows are written about real world events/news that inspire ideas that these films/shows are based on. Fracking had become a mainstream political topic around the time this movie was released and therefore it makes sense that someone made a movie about it. The ending leans a little bit left politically and that might be indicative of how the writer/director/producers really feel about the topic of fracking.

OP: If this movie ended with the town voting to allow the drilling would you still have come to IMDB with your butthurt feelings and claim this was typical right-wing propaganda?

"Let's just run everything on rainbows and happy thoughts."

Even if the rest of the movie is pro environmental that line alone balances it out because the meaning behind the sarcasm is 100% true. However, that doesn't mean humanity shouldn't be busting it's hump to find an alternative to finite resources or that they should ignore the very real risks of unchecked fracking.

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Matt Damon's character actually have a couple good arguments... Specifically if you're against natural gas, you're basically for coal and crude oil as they're currently the only two realistic alternatives.

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