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(All photos © Alex MacLean)

Photographer Alex MacLean has been flying around the United States in his plane for a while now, taking aerial pictures that little have in common with the cold-hearted omniscence of Google Earth. Instead, they provide a beautiful, poetic, and yet compelling view of the ecological risks of suburban sprawl, uncontrolled industrialism, and the scarcity of environment-friendly energy sources. MacLean’s eye selects visually-amazing targets, to which he also attaches a rich statistical documentation to better outline a risky scenario: toxic waste, pollution, global warming, but also housing speculation and social isolation.

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Se The Incredibles ci aveva fatto capire che pure i pupazzi 3D potevano ispirare interpretazioni macro-politiche ai dietrologi, questo film ci propone un’allegoria di global warming e psicologia del potere, in una cornice steampunk un po’ alla Isola dei bambini perduti. Bill Murray scintilla con collaudata butteratezza e la panza imbottita.