Movie review - “King of Arts”
This is a movie/parody of nuclear power plant set in a small town in Vermont. Three anti-nuke volunteers are sent as an advance to evaluate concerns before the uprate is sent. Hearing voices, the lead actor, played by Gary Sunpower, enter a building and finds a hospital floor full of patients. As he is proclaimed the King of Arts, he realizes the place is an insane asylum and he flees, leaving the gate to the ward unlocked.
Following is a parody of inmates returning to the places and post they once occupied, or identified with. The movie revolves around this anti-nuker (lead actor) attempting to save the townspeople from dying in this exploitation of a VY ENVY 20% uprate plan. As they are all leaving Brattleboro, the people he wants to save stop at the edge of town and explain their refusal to leave by asking him where is it safer/crazier, at the asylum or out there in Vernon, where man is killing man with radio active releases and spent nuclear fuel. They return to the asylum and Gary disassembles the nuke plant and prevents the destruction of the town. In a surprise encounter before, the pro-nuke neighbors and workers from VY meet in the center of the village at dog poopy park and realize the futility of nuclear power.
The artists eventually take the town and Gary is returned to the population. As the movie ends, you see him walking down Main street, shedding his anti nuke bumper stickers and hand made flyers, then his Guatemalan made shirt and drawstring pants, as he approaches the entrance to the Windham Gallery and goes in stark naked.