I'm guessing the producer/director got the "talent" together and told them to assume their characters and ad-lib on a basic theme, i.e., no real word-for-word script. Well, the actors did a rather bad job of it, in my opinion. What's worse, the whole film drops the ball on some of the real issues of old-growth logging. The fact is, four, five generations of Euro-peasants have swarmed over this continent cutting down everything in sight! Now there's hardly any old-growth left! That means the big- money jobs are harder to find. Nothing but scrawny, low- dollar 2nd-, 3rd-growth. So now we have a hand-full of "city" idealist want to protect the few remaining o-g forests. I'm saying the loggers, the logging industry, and the logging towns have reached the limit of their way of life and want to blame a problem that is 99% of their own making on the idealists. This fact is not in the least brought out in this film. In general, lots of why questions are left out in favor of "human interest." The last "citizen" (the waitress) was particularly galling. Honey, your men have cut down all the trees except for a few acres the "environmentalists" are trying to save. But you want to blame "city people" for your problems. . . . Very frustrating on many levels, this film...
Review of The Green Chain
