Movie Teaser

Check out the trailer for a new documentary film called The Tomato Effect. It's showing at very, very select locales. I joked on this blog a few months back about seeing what activism could bring by watching the movie Silkwood, which is about a whistle-blower at a nuclear power plant who died mysteriously. (I thought it was well done, if disturbing. The image of Meryl Streep's terrified face in the scenes in which her character sets off the contamination alarms at the plant will stay with me for life.) Little did I know that those of us with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) have our own mysteriously fallen champion. I can't vouch for the documentary now, but when it comes someplace within driving distance of me I'll let you know what I think.

Also, if you haven't seen Safe, with Julianne Moore playing a woman with MCS, I highly recommend it. I first saw it, with ill-considered bravado, on day four of my illness, when it happened to be showing in theaters after its original release. I experienced it then as a horror movie, but upon reflection think it's as good a disease movie as we, the afflicted, could possibly hope for.

P.S. Check out the links in the comments to this post for something way more interesting than what's above. Still, I would defend Safe from critics who think it doesn't make a social critique. I think it's widely misinterpreted and that it makes nothing but blistering social critique in every frame.