Underkastelsen

[Scottie]

Has anybody seen this movie?

http://www.underkastelsen.se/

Got any idea how I can get ahold of a copy?

 

[Gimpy]

Has anybody seen this movie?

http://www.underkastelsen.se/

Got any idea how I can get ahold of a copy?

No, haven't even heard of it til now. Has it even been released yet? I couldn't tell from the site.

 

[anart]

It looks great. It was released in 2010 (I think) - only searches on getting it, though, go to youtube and some torrent downloads...

 

[Vulcan59]

The storyline sounds interesting.

 

[Gertrudes]

It looks great.

I second that. Stefan Jarl's (director) description of the movie seems very interesting, a few snippets from his site:

Submission is a documentary about the ‘chemical society’ – the society we have been building since the Second World War. Back then, humans used 1 million tonnes of chemicals per year; the figure today is 500 million tonnes. The chemical industry is the fastest-growing industry in the world. The film is about the 100,000 chemicals we use every day, what they’re used for and what they do to us and our health. And I don’t mean food additives – I’m talking about chemicals we are exposed to in our daily environments: softeners (phthalates), flame retardants (PBDE), surfactants (PFOS, PFOA) and so on.

Professor Åke Bergman at Stockholm University is my guide throughout the film, analysing the chemicals in my blood and explaining what they are. It turns out I’m carrying several hundred foreign chemicals. I can’t hide my shock.
(...)
Over the years I have grown to realise how willing we humans are to submit to others’ terms. It’s a holdover from our earliest childhood. And commercial interests in society are quick to make use of it. This interests me from a philosophical viewpoint. Just as Nature’s Revenge showed that Mother Nature doesn’t take kindly to manipulation and strikes back at us, I now understand that humankind is prepared to submit to whatever consequences our manipulations of nature throw our way.
(...)
Like most of my other documentaries, Submission is, at the core, about what kind of society we want to live in.

 

[Niall]

Found a list of Swedish sites selling the DVD here: http://www.folketsbio.se/koepfilm ... but they only deliver locally.

Also, it seems like it won't be released till the 23rd of this month: http://www.filmia.se/movie/26762/underkastelsen/

 

[Niall]

Good news - this documentary is now available for DVD purchase through Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Submission-Underkastelsen-Ypotagi-Eva-R%C3%B6se/dp/B004UOL4QG/ref=lh_ni_t

Mr Scott, would you like me to send you a copy?

 

[paralleloscope]

It's up on youtube, at least 1st half is (45 min), sadly only the english and german experts are subtitled and 3/5 is in swedish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTMRi0ElqTk

Here are some bulletpoints from the first 45 minuttes of "Underkastelsen"


Chemical industry 10 % of global economy

The storyteller gets his blood tested [not extensively] and is explained the chemical substances found and their composition and effects on the body by swedish professors. They find for example: mercury, PCB, DDT (banned in 60's but still in circulation in the ecosystems and have not half lifed yet), phtalates, huge amounts of DDE (a DDT disolvant that attacks adrenals and binds to cortisol which then in turn is hard to produce (probable uptake from fish)), cadmium, PBDE a general flame retardant with similar resistance to PCB. PFOS, a stain repellant.

"coctail-effect" the combination of unrelated molecules. Research is only just started and not much is known of the chain reactions of the thousands of different combinations. The research is expensive but the experts can see this is of high importance as for example it is known that lots of small doses with no appearant effect in an additive manner can accumulate violently. An example is given that our doctors ask wether we are taking any other meds before he can subscribe something specific but the chemical blood composition is not taken in to consideration.

Phtalates, a coating to soften PVC material (found for example in toys) that fumes and is airborne and instantly absorbable in skin, recognize it by the grease on PVC. Tests have shown that childrenrooms are the most toxic of all rooms, and there is mention of relations to autism.

Pesticides in vegetables (example of 10-20 different types found in one apple/ chili pepper)

Cats and kids biggest takers of the chemicals in our daily surroundings by being close to carpets and furniture

About fluorine atom which reppels water, lipids and soil

Hormones and other human produced chemicals found in nature, sexually mutating ecosystems. Dumped through irrigation and waste (ie. anti-pregnancy pills, medicinal waste).

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