
End: Civ Resist or Die
Industrial civilization is the target here, framed through a single provocative question drawn from Derrick Jensen's book Endgame: if your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist? Director Franklin Lopez builds his film around that premise, treating deforestation, industrial pollution, and factory farming as an ongoing invasion that most people have simply learned to live inside. Jensen appears throughout laying out his argument for direct resistance rather than reform, and the film brings in activists and communities who have chosen confrontation over compromise, from blockades to sabotage, as test cases for what resistance actually looks like in practice. The film does not pretend neutrality: it argues that appeals to individual green consumerism have failed and that the systems driving ecological collapse will only stop if physically stopped. Seventy-five minutes spent making the case that the choice in the title is real, and that most of us have already chosen without noticing.