In How to Blow Up a Pipeline, director Daniel Goldhaber dared to adapt the novel of the same name by Andreas Malm, which was considered difficult to film. But Critics were enthusiasticparticularly praised the direction and acting, as well as the extreme tension of the entire film. How to Blow Up a Pipeline received a rating on Rotten Tomatoes 94 percent positive reviews.
However, the main reason he caused a stir was that… the FBI got involved and thus sparked a discussion about activism. At the September 28th The action thriller will be released on Blu-ray and DVD in Germany and can already be pre-ordered now.
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline: This is what the home theater version offers
If you can’t stand it anymore, you can buy or rent How to Blow Up a Pipeline streaming on Amazon Prime *. For everyone else, the DVD and Blu-ray version has the trailer as well Q&A at the Toronto Film Festival ready. With all the controversy surrounding the film, Answered Questions is certainly worth watching.
Because of the controversial act, the FBI got involved
The film title already describes the plot: eight ragtag people come together to destroy an oil company’s pipeline in Texas. They call themselves activists, the US law enforcement agency and that The FBI would probably describe them as terroristsbecause that’s exactly what they warn about: the film would inspire viewers to commit terrorist attacks.
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Not all characters are climate activists, the motives are different, the goal is the same.
A criticism that is perhaps not entirely unjustified, after all it is under the tab on the film’s website Take action to find the entire pipeline network in the USA. One Invitation to imitate? In any case, critics don’t see any danger in the film, because How to Blow Up a Pipeline is less about instructions for building bombs and more about the different motives of the characters. And they are told in flashbacks so excitingly that they… Quentin Tarantino’s film Reservoir Dogs remember.
These are current questions that How to Blow Up a Pipeline asks and that is precisely why the FBI would like to nip them in the bud. With the open criticism of capitalism The film joins other recently successful productions such as Triangle of Sadness, White Lotus and The Menu. But as Lukas Hermsmeier notes in his review on Zeit-Online:
How to Blow Up a Pipeline is different: more frontal, free of irony, and therefore uncomfortable.
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