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Spaceship Earth is a documentary that fails on the most basic level: it tells the story that nobody wants to hear. The film, blessed with the compelling story of the spectacular failure that was Arizonas Biosphere 2 project, squanders its opportunity to show us what we really want to see. Instead, director Matt Wolf focuses on the 1960s counterculture that inspired the team of unappealing Biospherians. Its a behind-the-scenes exploration, alright: the film just doesnt open the door that you really want to look in.
In 1991, eight hippie visionaries dedicated two years of their lives to live in quarantine inside a self-engineered replica of the Earths ecosystems in an attempt to chronicle their daily existence in the face of a life-threate...