Go Further (2003)

Director:

Ron Mann

Writer:

Solomon Vesta (writer)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

"Go Further", the new film by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann, explores the idea that the...

Plot Keywords:

Vegetarian | Bicycle | Bus | Ecology | Education

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Woody Harrelson	...	Himself
Ken Kesey	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tom Ballanco	...	Himself
Jessica Chung	...	Herself
Steve Clark	...	Himself
Sonia Farrell	...	Herself
Michael Franti	...	Himself
Rob Heydon	...	Himself
Joe Hickey	...	Himself
Anthony Kiedis	...	Himself
Joe Lewis	...	Himself
Renee Loux Underkoffler	...	Herself
Billy Martin	...	Himself
Dave Matthews	...	Himself
John Medeski	...	Himself
Natalie Merchant	...	Herself
Bob Weir	...	Himself
Chris Wood	...	Himself

Also Known As:

What Every Young Person Should Know (Canada: English title) (working title)

Runtime:

Canada:90 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | USA:100 min | USA:80 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

USA:Unrated | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Santa Barbara, California, USA

Company:

Boneyard Entertainment

Quotes:

Woody Harrelson: I sometimes feel like an alien creature for which there is no earthly explanation. In money, we trust we'll find happiness... the prevailing attitude. Like a genetically modified, irradiated Big Mac is somehow symbolic of food. Morality is legislated...

Cliff Notes

The funniest part in this documentary had to be when Woody Harrelson and his voyagers were called "Freak!" The word was such an escape from the rest of the movie showing how there are people who do hate Harrelson and friends, the guys didn't mind the word one bit, and the word "freak" just has so many empty definitions that cancel each other out - this is what made me laugh. The brief name-calling occurred outside some big, heavily-guarded mill or workplace (I forget what the place did) where Harrelson had conversation with a guard, saying how he respects that many people, informed or not, live in destructive ways because they themselves are trying to make their livings. The guard happily repeats "Oh I know. Yeah I know." From the start, the viewer is told that Woody Harrelson, whose nickname "Woody Allen" (come up by the public apparently to show how annoying they think he is or something along these lines) shouldn't confuse him with the actual Woody Allen, is an actor in films and activist in forming a small group or two which speaks openly about trying to save the world, ever listener being part of it and therefore a possible instrument in saving it. Two motifs in Ron Mann's doc teach the ways: what to do when outside in the air we pollute, and food.

As for the outside; it's a place that can clean off the pimples and splotches on your face (unless you live in dirty Los Angeles, I guess) and the stress in your heart if you focus on exercising about and breathing the air. The crew shows us yoga on the grass and even on their bikes, shows us much of the countryside's sights as we stare into the water just over that cliff. The guys go far, though, and bikes are not the most helpful vehicle to use for traveling to cities and preach about how all milk warm to very cold has blood and pus from how much wrong directions in science corrupt the cows we inject along with traveling to centers that successfully easily live off of the sunlight's power, to bands that play not by electricity but by the power exerted from people exercising (easy money right there), and to farmers or planters who have found healthy, easy, life-enhancing ways to grow organically and get rid of garbage through worms that love eating it. Paper can easily be made without wood. The crew travels on a bus - which runs not on gas but on biofuel (with a film crew behind in a jeep that probably runs on gas as far as I can guess) - made primarily of material which I think is hemp instead of wood, painted on with paint itself made of something less-used, with the food cooked up inside all organic and lacking meat. They put emphasis on red meat being awful but swear that disregarding all meat brings a much healthier feel to life - here I disagree. Rather, I think what supermarkets or factories place in the meat is what should be ignored, meaning if you find and shoot the meat yourself, which the populous has done for longer than I could imagine, you'd be emphatically well-off. So, witness how there is that minority which searches for a happiness in their lives through saving the Earth's life, and through this doc witness reasons and the actual easiness by which people save in the ways this film shows, and you can see how forgetting its reason of creation (proving that there is a force that puts all in order) leads a science to ignore every other thing which can easily help. Or just relate to people battling urges and living to fight wrongs; either way.