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Maybe more than a tad.
But the science wasnt as inexact as all that.
Its a shrine to the kind of utopian idealism that has been laughed out of civilization to our detriment.
Consider what has replaced it.
But then Wolf whisks us back 25 years toBiosphere 2s seeds organic ones, you could say.
They called said ranch Synergia.
Maybe youre rolling your eyes, but this stuff floats my boat.
It floated their boat, too.
They read William Burroughs and then Burroughs came and read to them.
The Synergists didnt want to be stardust and golden and go back to the garden.
And so there wasBiosphere 2 so named because Earth itself wasBiosphere 1.
Theres even a homemade music video.
But then the denizens ofBiosphere 2begin to get testy.
Wolfs subjects note several kinks in the system.
(The deal is that nothing comes in and nothing goes out.)
Group dynamics and plants shrivel.
CEO Margaret Augustine clams up about whats happening, and under increasing scrutiny Allen seems to unravel.
Bass brings in scientific advisers with axes to grind.
(Theyre dismayed that a theater collective got the money that was their due.)
Later, he also brings in Steve Bannon, fresh from Goldman Sachs.
Seeing the young Bannon sickens you, like too much CO2.
The movie packs a lot in but still leaves gaps.
Central questions go unanswered.
Pauly Shore went there.
Wolf could have, too.
She has reconciled herself to nerdy isolation but not to disruptive neuroses and cover-ups.
I went intoSpaceship Earth let me revise that … Viewed under quarantine,Spaceship Earthhas a visceral kick.
What if it forces us to realize thatBiosphere 2was an unnerving distillation of life onBiosphere 1?
