An Inconvenient Truth
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Movie Reviews of An Inconvenient Truth
Movie Review: Nobel Prize Worthy
Summary: 5 Stars
Despite what imbeciles who are so brainless they actually take Fox "News" seriously, and can listen to the insipid straw man arguments of conservative AM hate-jocks like Rush Limbaugh without tossing their lunch...
...and who bob their brainless, pointy bobbleheads to the requisite, paid for, debunked, and tired "Junk Science"(c) garbaged spewed by the Right Wing noise machine have to say about it...
...this is an extremely informative, from the heart, and exceptionally well-communicated documentary about climate change.
In fact, /because/ conservative geeks hate this documentary (without having seen it, of course) so much, it's all the more reason to take it seriously, as conservatives have come to define themselves as a despicable group that's on the wrong side of every issue, all the time, without fail, including - disasterously, climate change.
It's been said the Lord works in mysterious ways. Perhaps it was by His design that Gore lost the presidency in 2000 to the idiot who's now in office that we're all waiting with great anticipation to leave. Gore has bigger fish to fry, and has shown this compelling climate change slide show - accompanied with his impassioned speech, over 1000 times around the world working tirelessly to educate, inform, and stimulate the political will to act both at the individual level and on the world stage.
His message? We've been dumping CO2 into the atmosphere at an alarming rate, which will result in calamity if we don't take immediate and drastic action. The evidence is beyond compelling, it's irrefutable, and the effects of climate change are happening - as he clearly shows, around the world now. Of course, taking such an urgent, ethical, and moral stand has made him a target for conservative cretins going back to papa Bush.
Gore isn't daunted by the Swift Boat attacks of these despicable idiots and their predictable reactions to inconvenient truths, and nor should anyone else. But to give this film any rating now is premature. Al Gore - like his documentary, can not be evaluated like conventional films or documentaries based on execution and/or entertainment value. The measure of success of this film depends on if - using it as a vehicle or a tool, Gore can impact world leaders and individual citizens sufficiently to effect the necessary changes in behavior to thwart the biggest challenge ever to the survival of our species. We'll know if his mission - and this film, has been successful by - literally, where the level of the sea is near the end of our lifetime.
Until then, an "A" (five stars) for effort. However, if there is one criticism, it would be he needs to add a few more slides directed at the current administration; he needs to show how people and fish can co-exist peacefully and communicate it at a "My Pet Goat" level. Perhaps then, his urgent message will finally resonate with the Bush administration.
Movie Review: Remember the Fallen
Summary: 5 Stars
A boy waits for a bus one early morning in his rural midwestern town. He looks forward to another day with his teacher and schoolmates. He ponders what activities might lay ahead. Will there be singing, will there be games, or will there be arts and crafts? But over the horizon moves an ominous cloud of black rolling forth over the sky. Suddenly, the prairie falls to darkness. It is like nighttime again, but this is a miserable penetrating waft that is choking and smothering.
The boy becomes one of the first to have fallen to climate change in the country called America. If he had seen the bus on its way he might have gotten on it, but that would have been no use. Even the bus sits silently in the midst of the fallen dust. Later, throughout the 1930's the Dust Bowl would take the lives of many more as dust pneumonia grew. Average global temperatures would reach peaks not previously seen during America's history. The parched soil blew from Kansas to Washington D.C. when a Congressional Assembly would walk outside to witness the gathering clouds that have rolled so far.
From there, farm managers, educators, and government agents would slowly develop better farm practices for wind-blown soils in semi-arid climates. Then there would be a reprieve from the heat for a time, and slowly memories would scatter.
Climate change would take lives in other lands as drought and famine hits Africa in 1982. Europe was not immune - a heat wave takes the lives of tens of thousands.
Throughout the 90's there would be new record high global temperatures. In 2003 climate change would appear in America taking the form of hurricanes like no one has ever seen. Again in 2004, and again in 2005 as this film, An Inconvenient Truth, was being made. Levees would break in a storm called Katrina, and the ensuing nightmares come true would leave in its wake a beloved city wrapped in death, sickness and homelessness. New Orleans would awaken again, and I pray that it will prosper. Still to come, Rita would devastate our oil distributors affecting the lives of everyone that drives a car, but it would be Wilma that would register the most powerful hurricane force ever known to humankind.
I was thinking about how An Inconvenient Truth should be remembered. It occured to me that I had never taken a moment to remember all the victims of climate change in America. We should all give just a moment.
We are grateful that we can heat our homes, cook our meals, and light our doorway. We are grateful that we can drive and fly. We are grateful that we can power our workplaces, our stores, and our entertainment and recreational centers. Do not fear, but do not take it for granted. Remember those that have fallen. It is they who have paid the price while we may preserve our ways.
Movie Review: Potential Disaster at Critical Mass - chilling to say the least
Summary: 5 Stars
I first heard of this movie when a friend of mine sent me and a few others a very sobering email. She was very forthright, you need you must see this movie were her words. I am glad she sent me that email a few months ago and I have wanted to write about this movie for quite some time.
The DVD is just downright sobering. It is sort of a journey for Al Gore, a man whom I now respect a whole lot more than ever before. This seems now to be his lifes work. He exhibited passion in what he tells in this documentary. I have heard a lot about the other side of the story, but really folks, we have to do something about the environment.
Seemingly, we will be inconvenienced either by a disaster or doing something immediately to avert it. Gore touches so many things, his life, his life's work, the effect of tobacco farming on his family. The movie is an autobiographical sketch of a man with a desire to see this earth survive for all of us.
There is some politics in it for sure. He is a politician. But the sobering facts are there, whether 100% accurate or not, there is definately quite a lot we have to do to solve our environmental problems. He claims it is not too late, but my question is, when will it be?
I have heard the opposite side of the arguements, even one thing not in the context of global warming that in Scotland in the past there was a time when they had a wine industry because it was so warm. There was also a time in history prior to Europeans in the Americas where the native population could walk across the NY bay in winter because it was so cold. Gore answers this with a chart of the cold and warm periods across the centuries. My questions and doubts were stopped right there. He had me.
MAYBE ONE FAULT:
If there is anything I would like to caution someone who sees the movie to think about it is this. The movie claims it is bipartisan and yes, it is a very bipartisan issue. In the movie you have scenes of Reagan, Bush I and Bush II denouncing something to do with the environment but we are not totally sure of the context.
ONE QUESTION:
Mr. Gore speaks of all the years where he was resisted in his quest to get this addressed and I am sure he was resisted and has been rebuffed again and again. Yet, his first two years as a VP the Dems had control of the Legislative and Executive, he does not address the dynamics of that time and he seems to indicate the resistance is mostly a Republican one. I hope that some day we get a view of what occurred during that time when he may have had an opportunity to proceed.
Finally, we have been warned and we as a people must make the right choices starting now to improve our chances of surviving and thriving in the years, decades and centuries ahead.
Movie Review: Inspiring and enlightening insight into the future and the past
Summary: 5 Stars
This film benefits from a presentation that has been refined and developed by it's presenter Al Gore for over 20 years.
It's visual presentation by reknowned director Davis Guggenhiem is spotless.
There is a sense of incisive modernism to the direction, and it casts what is essentially a powerpoint file accompanied by Gore's gently witty narrative into sharp focus.
For me, the most powerful aspect of this project, aside from the crushing facts of global warming, is Gore's selfless dedication to his topic. He quotes Winston Churchill at one point, and appropriately, because like Churchill, Gore's moral universe is simplified by one unassailable fact - he has a mission, and he will not ever stop working at it.
There is a tendency to criticise a film of this kind by creating doubt about a detail of it. For example, why is Gore seen in the film in a number of vehicles including helicopters, whilst preaching that we should all lower our carbon emissions? And the fairly overt shots of Apple laptops seem a little insidious when coupled with the knowledge that Gore is a director on the board of Apple computers.
To criticise in this way though is really missing the forest for the trees. A man does not devote himself to an issue with this much passion for 4 decades just to draw attention to himself, and anyone looking into Gore's eyes can tell that he means what he says. Gore is far from an attention seeker; his presentation is a very sophisticated attempt to blast through the barriers of doubt. In fact this film shows how he spends an almost equal amount of time studying doubt and how to tackle it, as he does researching the science itself.
My only quibble with the film is most probably a fault of the producer/directors in the mercifully few moments where we step outside Gore's presentation to study Gore himself and the shards of his life which intersect with the issue of Global Warming.
Although these moments are in their own way, powerful and sympathetic, they also form a platform upon which the film can be superficially criticised (ie that he's just trying to draw attention to himself after losing an election, or that he's attempting to politicise science etc) and moronic as these criticisms may be, the film was better off not entering into the personal realm of Gore in my opinion. That could perhaps be another film. This film is and must be soley about the Earth, and the problem that confronts it.
In short, this is a powerful, deeply human experience and one that leaves it's audience immediately inspired to do what we can for our beautiful home. I hope it is seen by as many people as possible and that they open their hearts and minds to it.
Movie Review: a movie hated by the right wing corporate americans
Summary: 5 Stars
still cannot trust what the candid liberal democratic gore kept reminding you that 'global warming' is not a hearsay but a realistic doomsday early warning alarm, how come you guys could believe in the 'revelation' preached in the mysterious fantasy-like bible and would not believe the facts put right in front of you?
i'm glad that i'm crossing over the 6 decades gateway and threshold early next month and have already decided to be cremated after my sudden death (no funeral, no sermon, no ceremony, no nothing) without burial, just dispose the junk wherever available. as to my sons and other relatives, well, i simply couldn't care less.
adding the inconvenient truth of my forthcoming death to the global warming disaster or the coming next ice age or whatever, all i know it's beyond what i could do.
i saw al gore humored himself when the movie started and thought him finally rewound a little bit, that's a very good sign of him. what he pointed out in this film was alarmingly pathetic to all of the lives, human, wild lives or even plants on this overly abused planet. the statistics he showed to us were not fairy tales but factoids, predictable enough to having nightmares. but what could we do? okay, you ask me to drive a environmental friendly green car, but what about those daytona 500, indi 500, grand prix....those day and night bombings, wild fire burnings, twin tower crumbling down in a dust storm? what about wood burning fireplace, fuel burning to warm up the whole house? what about in-and-out burger's drive thru? those cars line up one by one in line with their engine running so long, just to order couple of burgers? what about those diesel fueled semis? energy saving? well, if you can't afford the high prices of premium gasoline, don't buy lexus or any car that requires you to refill with 91 octane gas. million million cars on the freeways day and night , 24/7, thousands airplanes high flying around the world, burning gas, polluting the air space. every country is doing the same as we are doing everyday. yeah, truth has been told here, but who could do less in their daily lives? when a whole warehouse is burning, trying to extinguish it with just a glass of water not only meaningless but ridiculous. energy consumption equals modern convenience; modern convenience means development. for those under developed countries, when energy consumption becomes bigger and bigger, it's the sign of progress and prosperity. no developing country could avoid using traditional energy resources, coal and fossil fuels, to achieve its development and progress. there's no other way to bypass this dilemma and indeed, it is also an unconvenient truth.