Review: Into Eternity is a documentary about the question of storage for nuclear waste. Onkalo (Finnish for "hiding place") is under construction: it's a cavernous world of tunnels and corridors, a permanent storage facility for nuclear waste, meant to last 100,000 years (that's 20 times as long as the pyramids have so far). It's a very interesting subject matter, and more so after what just happened in Japan. I'm quite surprised that we haven't more movies about this before. I think it's a movie worth seeing, even though there is something that gets on my nerves about it. And that has to to with the director Michael Madsen (no, not the cool one from Reservoir Dogs). I get annoyed that he puts too much effort in making this movie arty, futuristic and retro at the same time. Playing Radioactivity by Kraftwerk while we're watching people in white coats handling the nuclear waste for example is taking the focus away too much from the very important subject and makes it more of a art installation than an urgent, interesting documentary. The biggest flaw of the movie is the part about the future. Where we get the image that people in the future might dig up this site because they don't understand the language and the signs that warns them. But if the problem in the future is that the knowledge is less than now, that this movie for future civilations for sure won't be seen. I don't think dvd's exist then... A bit sad to be honest. But still, it's very much worth watching.
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