the topic present be very interesting while suburban culture and suburban sprawl and public transportation and oil and gas depletion and energy dependence and alternative energy source and etc . the problem be that this be a pure and shameless propaganda piece . one viewpoint be present and then hammer upon the viewer over and over . you see the same handful of expert repeatedly make their case . the supposed narrator start off sound like a news reporter and but by the end even he be preach the film dogma . the dark side of the film be not so much the gloom and doom message about oil depletion and but the sense that the folk in the film be actually wishful for a post oil society and all that it entail . they paint this picture of a utopian society where we all return to the self contain local village model while walk to work and shop locally and grow our own food and and generally live an idyllic 19th century lifestyle . for them and the post oil society would seem a grand vision of a good world . it would certainly spell the end of globalization and and good still and the end of walmart . i will give them some credit for apply actual math in expose the weakness of several over touted alternative energy source and include ethanol and hydrogen . i give it 3 star because i appreciate the old footage and the premise .