Novice filmmaker Ed Brown's home-movie-as-op-ed Unacceptable Levels wants to scare the biosolids out of you, and it can, but that doesn't mean it's a success. It's hard to disagree with Brown's premise—that it's scary to contemplate how much unknown chemical crap has found its way into our food, water, products, and toys. Or at least no one disagrees among the two dozen or so experts Brown interviewed over the course of two years, on days off from his three jobs (say the production notes; he introduces himself to us in the movie as a waiter). Talking heads like Ralph Nader and The Body Toxic author Nena Baker all offer variations on the theme that our exposure to chemicals that may cause adverse health effects is constant and effectively unregulated. There's industr...
- 9/25/2013
- Village Voice
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