An Inconvenient Truth [2006]
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Actor: Al Gore
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that appeals to your sense of righteousness, your ethics, your morality, and your sense of urgency. It opens your eyes to those things you were aware of, either directly or indirectly, but you kept putting off dealing with it because you know that once you start it’s going to be long and frustrating battle.
This is exactly such a film. Film really isn’t the right way to describe it. It’s part documentary, part spoken word performance, and part lecture; Al Gore speaks about what he has always been passionate about, and which give him direction after the 2000 election defeats; global warming.
Most of the things he talks about you will probably already know, directly or indirectly, but never really wanted to accept as truth, simply because it forces you to accept that you’re going to have to make a change. Most of us have all this dissociated information stored inside our little nugget, but it pays to have someone as intelligent and as charismatic as Al Gore put it in a neat and concise package which is easy to consume and understand. He appeals to your sense of responsibility and honestly makes you want to do something about global warming. And he does all that without being overly political about it, which is important, especially in the U.S. if you want to reach the republican base. It’s also nice to have some of the information presented to you without an overly biased political statement marring the purity of the message.
Anyway, I highly recommend everyone to go and see it, and I’ll be happy to hear your opinions on it.
