Sabotage For The Planet?
The endless brown of the West Texas desert is interrupted only by the monstrous white serpent of a pipeline. A group of twentysomethings work together to lift a homemade explosive (which, in a sign of dark irony, is housed within an oil drum) and secure it to the beast. One of the straps holding the bomb is fraying, and the group has already been spotted by a drone overhead. Every wasted second adds to the odds that they’ll be stopped.
These are the unambiguous heroes of How to Blow Up a Pipeline—a film that flips the script about how we’ve been conditioned to think about villains and heroes in these types of stories.
