Flicks, Aaron Yap
Not content to simply recount the storied origins of Greenpeace, Jerry Rothwell’s How to Change the World also doubles as a pointed study of leadership, power and the splintering of solidarity in the quest for a revolution. The doco’s early passages certainly capture the reckless rush of the environmental movement’s roots: Rothwell’s staging evokes the heist-thriller mode of The Cove, following Canadian journalist Bob Hunter and his motley team of beardy “eco-freaks” as they attempt to stop a nuclear bomb test in Amchitka, Alaska in 1971.
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