Hybrid | movie | 2007 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

After an accident causes him to lose his sight, Aaron Scates finds himself in a fight for survival. He must learn to emb | dG1falN0eU91VlY5QTQ

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00:00If you know what you're looking for, it's easy to observe corn mating.

00:07The real problem is that corn has a tendency to play with itself.

00:12So to get a hybrid, you've got to encourage conjugal visits.

00:17Of course, that's just what Milford Beakley was doing.

00:23Improvement of corn fit right into the white man's vision of manifest destiny.

00:27By the early 1930s, the evidence in favor of hybrid seed was becoming overwhelming.

00:33Still, farmers resisted, partly because agriculture, like the rest of the country, was in the grip of the Great Depression.

00:41But yet I had confidence that hybrid seed was a wave of the future.

00:53You know how popular corn on the cob is.

00:55Most people are amazed to learn that what they're really chewing is a mouthful of ripe dovry.

01:01Corn is so alive, like people.

01:04Pick your teeth. Beakley's hybrid satisfies. That's right, this is a toothpick dispenser.

01:10Let me see if we can make it work.

01:12Well, just like that.

01:14I know that my dad was interested in genetics and agriculture and that he was one of the pioneers in that field.

01:23Still don't think about it. Corn is corn.

01:27I felt that the first I really got to know him as a person was when I was in my 40s.

01:33Would you say he was closer to Corn than his family?

01:38No, definitely. That was his whole life.

01:41I think if dad knew how to communicate, I think my mother would have been a heck of a lot happier.

01:49And so would the rest of us.

01:51You go back into the house after she's gone and it's pretty lonesome.

02:00The human family needs to be in touch with nature so that they can carry on and have the good life that nature provides.

02:11Away from these swellings where school moms would govern with absolute sway.