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The Shutdown (2009)

Name: The Shutdown
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-12-05T09:01:06+01:00
Cast: Alan Bissett

Documentary | 10 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 10 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Adam Stafford

Stars: Alan Bissett

IMDb score: 7,4 (22)

Releasedate: 1 May 2011

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The Shutdown plot

"Look to the east, and you'll see that the night sky is never as dark as it is toward the west," novelist Alan Bissett begins his short story in an almost unintelligible Scottish dialect. The dull gray-green landscape around the Scottish villages of Falkirk and Grangemouth transforms into a mysterious, almost divine black-orange purgatory at night. Torches illuminate the emissions from the chemical factories and chimneys together form a quiet city. Bissett grew up in this industrial environment and tells of the factory accident that injured his father.