Fresh Kill
Director: Shu Lea Cheang
Year Released: 1994
Rating: 1.0
Every day, tons of waste is transported to The Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island (which, at the time, was the largest in the world) and the pollution is affecting the residents of the city to such a degree that cats are disappearing and then Honey (Nelini Stamp), the daughter of Shareen Lightfoot (Sarita Choudhury) and Claire Mayakovsky (Erin McMurtry), vanishes ... and then sushi chef Jiannbin (Abraham Lincoln Lim) hacks into GX Corporation, which is responsible for the harmful effects. I'll begrudgingly give it a tiny bit of credit (roughly two spoonfuls worth) for bringing up the topics of climate change and how to utilize technology to disrupt companies harming humanity, but the actual film is terribly discombobulated and mostly incoherent, as if it was "edited" together by a ticked-off grad student desperate to make a deadline. It's trying way too hard to appear "edgy" and "hip" and accomplishes virtually nothing, although the score by acclaimed musician Vernon Reid (the guitarist for the band Living Colour) is appropriately funky.