Julia Butterfly, what a beautiful experience – living your life with a tree in order to save it, and making an ecological difference. I don’t know if she practices any particular religion (her father used to be a minister), but it seems like she is living the philosophy of love (from Jesus, MLK Jr., et al). She’s just out there preaching love, focusing everything on love. In her case it’s for a tree, and that’s what’s staggering about it – that she’s not discriminating at all – just loving. Tom sums it up nicely.
On a more practical level, the film was completely unbalanced, but it was blatently unbalanced it became a story rather than a documentary, so I choose not to think about the issue through the lens of this film.