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Austin City Limits

Continued from page 1

Published on March 12, 2008

The movie's resolution falls like a reckoning: Bradley, seen surveying the Austin skyline from his castle, plummets from public vilification to bankruptcy. In the end, his Xanadu is padlocked, and he resembles no one so much as There Will Be Blood's downfallen Daniel Plainview, his own milkshake sucked dry by some mysterious whim of fate.

The Unforeseen is the latest in a small but growing canon of ecological-alarm documentaries.

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Not rated.

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Jim Ridley on The Unforeseen

Dunn takes no pleasure in his free fall — and there's little vindication anyway. "Barton Springs is a macrocosm of the world in which we now live," a radio commentator is heard to sigh, as the camera gazes upon unclear water. "Damn, damn, damn."

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