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Here is the full comment from the film's director, Tim Bennett (sent to us on 10 September 2007):
Hi Keith,
Sally forwarded this [that is, a link to NSF's web page] on for me to look at. Thanks for your kind words, and for your help in getting the word out. Great page. Nice to have comments, links, etc, all in one place like that. Well done!
Your comments about the length align with ours. We made it long and dense on purpose. The situation itself is long and dense! Difficult to wrap our minds around. So we chose to have the movie mirror that experience. The present predicament requires that we dig deeper, watch the movie more than once, and/or read the many authors you listed on your site. At screenings we've become pretty adept at avoiding that tendency toward film criticism (fun, but a distraction, as you point out) and focusing instead on the content and how it lands with us. Thanks for being an ally in that.
Regarding the runny moose marrow, my original list was probably six times as long as the list in the movie, but there just wasn't time to use it all, unless it scrolled so quickly that you couldn't read any of it. We had to keep going back and balancing it, so that the speed and content worked in the time allowed. I kept runny moose marrow in until the end, because I love the moose, and I also loved the quirky name!
Onward,
Tim Bennett
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