Movie Review: Power Of The Pedal By Bob Nesson

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Writer and director, Bob Nesson, in his documentary film Power of the Pedal, points out that the small ideas can positively impact the environment. He chronicles the business success story of Wenzday Jane who worked her way out of public housing and into a niche that has turned into a small business—Metro Pedal Power. Jane’s business is a delivery service for Boston and Cambridge MA. and the surrounding areas via cargo bicycles. Nesson’s purpose is to bring awareness to his audience that there are better alternative to the way society does various tasks in its day-to-day businesses that are less harmful to the environment. He does this by appealing to the eco-friendly, logical minded, and sentimental aspects of the viewer. He accomplishes this by showing a better way to deliver goods in a congested community, images of how the environment and community are better off with more approaches like the ones in this story, and finally with a heart-touching emotional story of how an underdog beats the olds. Nesson directs much of his attention in the film at the general public with an emphasis towards the environmentalist in the crowd. His intent with the film is to inform the viewer how the environment is improved with environmental friendly …show more content…

He continually uses scenes of backed up and congested traffic, followed by one of Jane’s Metro Pedal Power deliveries flowing easily past the congested traffic in the bike lane or on the side streets. Further evidence of his plea to the environmentalist in the viewer are the serene scenes of clear blue skies filled with puffy white clouds and a relaxing pleasant background music that opened the film and then again he uses them to transition from one scene to the next several times during the film. Nesson knows everyone is not an environmentalist, but he also knows people generally do not go around intentionally doing harm to the

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