“The Great Invisible” A Searing Portrait of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster and The World’s Complicated Addiction to Oil : The Scuttlefish

This month, Margaret Brown’s searing documentary The Great Invisible will begin screening across the country. Rather than simply hurling oily muck at the perpetrators of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, this film promises a far more in-depth view of one of the worst environmental catastrophes in global history, its lingering effects, and the economic and human consequences of a global addiction to oil. As Brown points out, such is the grip of oil on the politics and purse-strings of our nation, that not one new law was passed regarding oil rig safety in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon fiasco.