Al Gore’s Inconvenient truth - documentary or political propaganda?
I’ve watched last night a film i was dying to see for a while, Al Gore’s "An Inconvenient Truth", who treats the subject of global warming and its katastrophal effects, and I must say I’ve not wasted the 90 minutes of my life by doing that. Not at all. The movie has two parts, the great and well focused documentary and the cheap melodrama. So, as a whole, we have a good result.
Fishing boats on what used to be a sea a decade ago
You might think i’m harsh and insensible, but i quite can’t get why are those parts included in the movie, like the one’s with Al’s childhood at the farm, the friend who died of lung cancer, his loss in the elections and so on. Of course, they are some how related to the idea of the film, the effects of global warming over the environment and out lives, but I didn’t appreciate this part.
Al Gore’s natural charisma makes the message more penetrating in our minds
On the other hand, the other part is fantastic. Al Gore has a natural charisma and his presentations are very catching. Combine this with the ice cold truths told right in our face and you might get what’s this movie all about. The guy has a point, we should do something if we want to have an Earth to live on. I for one had no idea the situation is so bad. Seeing what happened to the Ciad lake, how that huge mass of ice melted in just only one summer and how Polar bears are beginning to drawn from lack of ice caps, got some chilly spikes on my back. It seems to bad to be real, but it is…
It’s exactly like in his example with the frog. We need a massive change to notice the difference and do something about this huge problem we’re facing right now. And it might be close, as the meltdown of Greenland could bring a new glacier era over Europe, like it happened in the past with the melting of the great glacier the covered northern America. But let’s hope we won’t get there. Al speaks mostly to Americans, saying he has trust they can change, but i think the message should be addressed to the entire world.
An Inconvenient Truth - trailer of an Oscar winning movie
As you all know, All lost to George W. Bush Jr. in the latest elections in USA, so many critics saw the movie as a political propaganda. I’m not a political expert, but even if the movie might be interpreted somehow like this, trough some of the quotes, like "America has the power but lacks the political will" or "I used to be the next president of the United States", nobody can deny that the problem that Al’s presentation is pointing to us is real and urgent. And that’s the whole point afterall, as "our ability to live is what is at stake". If you want to find out more about the movie or just want to take action in this matter, visit the movie’s site for more details.
If you will think back to your college professors and their lectures you might remember that they never just recited facts and figures. There needed to be some drama to keep you awake and interested. I can’t recall a single teacher who didn’t interject some opinions or personal info, religious, political or otherwise, into the teaching process. We need to let the human tell the story his own way without flaming the storyteller. If we want to inspect and scrutinize and criticize something why not try the facts and not the person.