Into Eternity, Michael Madsen, Finland, 2010 | intoeternitythemovie.com
“How is it possible to create oblivion and forgetting? How is it possible to make a facility like Onkalo disappear [from human memory] …”
The topic of this film is so chilling. Like watching a horror/science fiction version of Lord of the Rings (eternal fires, secret deep mountain tunnels, giant sealed gates, keepers of knowledge, total world destruction, etc) but styled as a documentary film. Even without rippling muscles displayed in extended battle scenes, you still know that hundreds and hundreds of people will die awful deaths for real. I imagine someday in the future, say 500 years from now, after a period of dark ages, some creatures, perhaps humans, will stumble upon (or intentionally seek) this burial chamber of nuclear waste, unleashing the almost forgotten, earth-destroying monster of Onkalo!
The problem of permanent knowledge transfer into the future that the scientists & experts are grappling with (impotently) in this film underlines just how impermanent human life (or the so-called technologically advanced, human-made repositories of knowledge) truly is (are). The use of nuclear energy to create devices that could then store nuclear waste (which could destroy the entire planet) simply annihilates the triumph of human reason.
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