Promised Land
film by Van Sant [2012]
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The film Promised Land (2012), directed by Gus Van Sant, stars Matt Damon as a gas-company representative who visits a rural Pennsylvania community to secure drilling rights. The film explores contemporary disputes surrounding fracking. The term "promised land" can also refer to an imaginary place of perfection and happiness, synonymous with utopia or paradise.12
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