Dark Waters review, Culture Whisper
Poisoning water supplies, intentionally or not, sounds like the act of a Bond villain: it’s so innately evil that it’s difficult to comprehend real people being capable of such devastation. In 1998, the corporate lawyer Rob Billet began a case in West Virginia against the chemical company DuPont, accused of dumping barrels of the synthetic chemical PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) into the state’s water. It turns out: there are some real villains out there.
Dark Waters, an enlightening though over-stylised Man vs System story, follows Billet’s 20-year legal battle against the company.
