Escape to Canada (2005)
- Original title
- Escape To Canada
- Directed by
- Albert Nerenberg
- Genre
- documentary film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 5.1 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary compares Canada and the United States in the early 2000s. It focuses on Canada's legalization of same-sex marriage and relaxed marijuana laws, as well as its refusal to join the Iraq War. The film argues that these policies made Canada a haven for Americans seeking more liberal freedoms.
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What happens
Escape to Canada (U.S.: Land of the Freer) is a 2005 Canadian satirical documentary film written and directed by Albert Nerenberg, with cinematography by producer Shannon Brown, the debut feature of their production company, Elevator Films, commissioned by the Documentary Channel, Canal D, and the National Film Board of Canada. The film examines the results of Canada's relaxing of its marijuana laws at the same time that same-sex marriage became legal, along with Canada's abstention from the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq having made the country a perceived haven for progressive Americans. The documentary's events begin in the summer of 2003 when both same-sex marriage and marijuana were legalized (temporarily, in the case of the latter). The film underscores the contrast between the liberal movement in Canada and the more conservative attitude in the U.S., the premise being that "liberal attitudes beget liberal laws", and that "Canada, and not the U.S., is North America's pre-eminent freedom-loving country." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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