During the Sundance Film Festival this year, the Washington Post journalist William Booth highlighted Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
The opening of his article is great:
Has ever a little indie film faced a greater hurdle? Imagine this sales pitch: Babe, it's a movie about global warming. Starring Al Gore. Doing a slide show. With charts. About ‘soil evaporation.’ Improbable? Perhaps. So it's all the more amazing that "An Inconvenient Truth" had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday night before an enthusiastic audience that gave the former vice president and his movie a big standing O.
As you will see in this trailer, An Inconvenient Truth is based on a slide show that Gore himself assembled, according to Booth, as he "traveled the globe with his bar graphs, staging event after event for small, invited audiences. Free of charge. And he's presented one version or another of this slide show, by his own estimation, a thousand times."
And if you haven’t heard about the topic of the film yet, which would surprise me as there are even multiple spoofs of it on the web, let me break the suspense now:
"Earth's glaciers are melting....each year sets new heat records....The accumulation of carbon dioxide and other pollutants of the industrial age are increasing temperatures." As film-goers witnessed watching the disaster film The Day After Tomorrow, Gore’s stats argue"that global warming may soon lead to catastrophic sea level rises, which could inundate cities such as New York (flooding the former site of the World Trade Center), producing scary nonlinear runaway spasms of extreme weather (bigger, badder hurricanes and typhoons), global pandemics and, depending on where you live, torrential rains or decade-long drought."
The official Sundance Film Festival guide calls the documentary a "gripping story" with "a visually mesmerizing presentation" that is "activist cinema at its very best."
I don't know about you. But I am very interested in the topic of global warming. And, very interested to see it. (And yes, maybe I am biased. After all, I voted for Gore in 2000.)
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