Attended a film festival where The Believers was screening some years back, going in with more than decent knowledge about Cold Fusion and familiarity with nearly all the people interviewed.
It was a good film in that it brought attention to LENR, aka Cold Fusion. Seeing the players involved was very interesting, especially Martin Fleischmann as this is probably the last footage of him before he passed away. Some unnecessary segues and such, but still good to see/hear him.
The film wasn't the leaning towards positive attention many had hoped for, and felt the subject rightfully deserved. The filmmakers wanted to play the typical middle of the road card, even refusing to give their personal take on Cold Fusion during the Q and A session, which the audience in attendance found frustrating.
Maybe understandable for other subjects, but since Cold Fusion has been dogged for so incredibly long, with a volatile history of ending careers undeservedly and a host of other injustices, it really deserved a lot more.
Since this science has the potential for much needed world changing energy capabilities, the middle of the road approach should have been replaced with stressing all the strong evidence towards Cold Fusion being a reality, instead of building on the confusion that has already existed for the past twenty years. This back and forth "yay VS nay" has already been played out to death throughout the 90's and a better advancing of the subject would've been more deserving.
The title of the film was indeed unfortunate. "The Believers". We are well passed the "believing" stage. Scientists have worked hard to establish enough evidence to get out of that label, and in that sense the movie felt dated by placing them back in that bubble.
Nevertheless I think it is definitely worth seeing, well put together and a good look at some of the people involved and the back story overall, especially the injustices Pons and Fleischmann suffered throughout the years.
It was a good film in that it brought attention to LENR, aka Cold Fusion. Seeing the players involved was very interesting, especially Martin Fleischmann as this is probably the last footage of him before he passed away. Some unnecessary segues and such, but still good to see/hear him.
The film wasn't the leaning towards positive attention many had hoped for, and felt the subject rightfully deserved. The filmmakers wanted to play the typical middle of the road card, even refusing to give their personal take on Cold Fusion during the Q and A session, which the audience in attendance found frustrating.
Maybe understandable for other subjects, but since Cold Fusion has been dogged for so incredibly long, with a volatile history of ending careers undeservedly and a host of other injustices, it really deserved a lot more.
Since this science has the potential for much needed world changing energy capabilities, the middle of the road approach should have been replaced with stressing all the strong evidence towards Cold Fusion being a reality, instead of building on the confusion that has already existed for the past twenty years. This back and forth "yay VS nay" has already been played out to death throughout the 90's and a better advancing of the subject would've been more deserving.
The title of the film was indeed unfortunate. "The Believers". We are well passed the "believing" stage. Scientists have worked hard to establish enough evidence to get out of that label, and in that sense the movie felt dated by placing them back in that bubble.
Nevertheless I think it is definitely worth seeing, well put together and a good look at some of the people involved and the back story overall, especially the injustices Pons and Fleischmann suffered throughout the years.