The Ants and the Grasshopper

Runtime : 74 mins

Genre : Documentary

Vote Rating : 7.3/10


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Plot : Anita Chitaya has a gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and maybe she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home in Malawi from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate sceptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions that shape the USA: from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, and to the American exceptionalism that remains a part of the culture. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognise, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.

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Told from the perspective of Anita Chitaya, this offers us a cleverly presented counterbalance between this small (one acre) Malawian farmer and her much larger-scale US counterparts. We start in her small rural community where the resources and education are basic, food and water are in short supply and their husbands have the most curious approach to their role as it regards doing any work! Luckily, unlike their friend Winston, her husband does help out now and again but the terrain and the weather conditions really do render this the most subsistence of existences. Wary of the impact climate change is having on their lives, the film crew take her to the United States where they meet some politicians and Iowa farmers who have their own attitudes and problems to deal with. These latter farmers prove much less concerned about the impact of global warming and the challenge for Anita is not only to learn what she can from them, but also to instil in them some semblance of understanding that perhaps, and it is only perhaps, their methods may not be in their own long term interests. That's what made this work better for me. There is no pontificating. No attempt to indoctrinate the audience - we are left to watch, listen and come to our own conclusions. We see Anita's determination, decency and poverty and it starkly contrasts with the livelihoods of her new American friends, but we are also offered a glimpse of their troubles too, as they try to adapt from more "traditional" agriculture to more scalable organic methods - without losing their homes and livelihoods along the way. There is a fair degree of Christian faith demonstrated here too - and it is interesting how the differing views on the environmental issues both take some degree of succour from their perceived belief that God wants them to continue... It probably isn't a big screen film, though some of the documentary photography in Malawi is stunning. It is, however, well worth watching on television if you get an opportunity - Anita is an engaging conduit for this important message.

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