AN INCOVENIENT TRUTH
starring: Al Gore
director: Davis Guggenheim
date: December 12, 2006
reviewer: Clarkey
rating: 7.5
Documentaries have been a crucial part of the film industry since the invention of the video camera. Lately, documentaries seem to be everywhere and on everything imaginable and made by everybody, even ex-Vice Presidents of the United States of America. That’s right; Al Gore made a documentary about something that is very personal to him: the issue of global warming and the lack of the action to prevent it from causing devastating damage to the world.
Unlike some of the modern day documentaries, this one is a more traditional form of documentaries (a.k.a. the boring ass ones that teachers you make you watch in school). However, Gore doesn’t care about spicing it up. He simply wants to get his message out there. The film is divided into two parts. First, it takes you into one of Gore’s presentations. Secondly, it follows Gore around in his travels, while Gore reveals his motivation behind the project. Apparently, he has been stating his case for the effects of global warming since the 70s.
He uses stats that most of us know or have a good idea about global warming and its consequences. Most of what he was stating I heard in my natural science course. So, it wasn’t shocking news to me that the humans (mainly North Americans) are destroying the environment that we call Earth. However, Gore takes a political stance on the issue and shows the viewer how the politicians are ignoring the issue of global warming and continue about their business in its harming way without a care in the world. That was the thing that shocked me the most. Although, I should have figured that the neo-liberal governments of the contemporary world leaders wouldn’t want to put anything in the way of their profit making.
Although, this documentary is not as lively as some of the other ones out there, I strongly recommend that everyone see this movie. Ignoring the issue will not make it go away, as Gore states and it is important that masses see the flick and get at least one thing out of it. Hopefully, that one thing they get out of it is the need to act to get some changes done, either politically or environmentally.
director: Davis Guggenheim
date: December 12, 2006
reviewer: Clarkey
rating: 7.5
Documentaries have been a crucial part of the film industry since the invention of the video camera. Lately, documentaries seem to be everywhere and on everything imaginable and made by everybody, even ex-Vice Presidents of the United States of America. That’s right; Al Gore made a documentary about something that is very personal to him: the issue of global warming and the lack of the action to prevent it from causing devastating damage to the world.
Unlike some of the modern day documentaries, this one is a more traditional form of documentaries (a.k.a. the boring ass ones that teachers you make you watch in school). However, Gore doesn’t care about spicing it up. He simply wants to get his message out there. The film is divided into two parts. First, it takes you into one of Gore’s presentations. Secondly, it follows Gore around in his travels, while Gore reveals his motivation behind the project. Apparently, he has been stating his case for the effects of global warming since the 70s.
He uses stats that most of us know or have a good idea about global warming and its consequences. Most of what he was stating I heard in my natural science course. So, it wasn’t shocking news to me that the humans (mainly North Americans) are destroying the environment that we call Earth. However, Gore takes a political stance on the issue and shows the viewer how the politicians are ignoring the issue of global warming and continue about their business in its harming way without a care in the world. That was the thing that shocked me the most. Although, I should have figured that the neo-liberal governments of the contemporary world leaders wouldn’t want to put anything in the way of their profit making.
Although, this documentary is not as lively as some of the other ones out there, I strongly recommend that everyone see this movie. Ignoring the issue will not make it go away, as Gore states and it is important that masses see the flick and get at least one thing out of it. Hopefully, that one thing they get out of it is the need to act to get some changes done, either politically or environmentally.
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