An Inconvenient Truth
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Movie Reviews of An Inconvenient Truth
Movie Review: At last the alarms seem to have turned on!
Summary: 5 Stars
Since the end of the WW2 the bounds between science and power have been tightened. And although the perspective which the common citizen respect the science has experienced notables changes in the last six decades, the disillusion, hopeless and fear possibly have not been more dramatic than at this historical moment.
But the warnings sent by the nature, simply are ignorant of any sort of agreement; the mankind has surpassed the ethical boundaries and the environment simply has reacted according the well known principle of action and reaction established by Newton.
It' s time to realize we cannot shirk our moral and ethical responsibilities and beyond all the coziness the technology has provided us, there has been an usurpation of permissible limits that mirror a distorted conception respect the limits of our own growth. Moreover, the core of this global issue doesn't fall back over us as citizens, and admit there has been a considerable of silent scientists who have foreseen what' s going on and nevertheless, have decided to make silence due to unconceivable reasons. The possession of knowledge carries a moral obligation.
So what we will watch in this dramatic movie is just the iceberg' s point of considerable magnitude that is challenging with threatening celerity. The derived consequences o this misconception of the progress will work out (as it actually is happening) as a sinister boomerang that attacks without any sort of consideration or geopolitical zones. A typhoon, a tornado, a sudden increase of the pluviometric level or its correspondent drought due the gradual displacement of the normal distribution of rains, are undeniable facts and the enormous number of causes such as the visible increase in the levels of CO2 , the overpopulation and the countless catalogue of crucial and incidental factors that fall into the actual state of things demands from us, effective solutions.
But the billion dollars question stands out is: Will enough politics will exist and necessary universal agreement to face this huge challenge even if it implies the required confiscation of certain human rights and inherent legal restrictions concerned with the individuals liberties, contained into the same entrails of the democracy ?
Because when the mankind's surviving is in that irreversible point of no return, perhaps we will have to derogate and overlook certain formal and real liberties in order to achieve that superior aim. But will the human beings be fully prepared to become aware this dilemma ?
Movie Review: A Global Warning
Summary: 5 Stars
Much has already been said about "An Inconvenient Truth". It's inspiring, it's educational, and it points out a desperate need for change in our society. For those who do not believe that global warming is a problem, or even those that do believe it is a problem but do not fully understand it, go see this film. You will then realize what a serious problem this is.
A lot has been made about Al Gore being the presentor. "Al Gore? You mean the guy who thinks he invented the internet?" ... "Al Gore isn't a scientist! Why should I take him seriously?"
No matter what your view on Al Gore's stance on other political issues, or of him as a credible souce of scientific information, he is very passionate about this issue and is a very intellegent and pursuasive speaker. Give him a chance before you write him off as an enviornmental wacko who is trying to scare you into voting Democrat.
As far as science is concerned, Al Gore lays no claim to being a scientist...and he doesn't have to. None of the information presented in the film is his own. It is data from the world's leading scientists that Gore has thoroughly researched and learned as much as he can about. He's not making this stuff up for political gain, and no he's not trying to garner support for a presidential run. Al Gore has seen an issue that he is very concerned with, and it's something that we have all of the tools at our fingertips to fix! We have just chosen not to. That's what he wants to change.
Lastly, I'd like to point out one of the things I like best about this film and Gore's character: He has faith in the people. You would never imagine, with all of the crap he must have thrown at him from deniers, how incredibly confident he is that once the American people and the people of the rest of the world know the truth, they will not only want, but DEMAND change immediately to solve this crisis.
Special features include a 25 minute update from Al Gore about advances in the science of global warming since the release of An Inconvenient Truth. This is just great added value on top of an already excellent film. If you're not one to buy movies you've already seen in the theater's, it's at least worth renting it to watch the update.
If you are interested in learing what you individually can do to help stop global warming pollution, log on to the film's website at [...] and click on the "take action" tab on the right.
Movie Review: A Movie of Serious Consequence...
Summary: 5 Stars
An Inconvenient Truth does a great job of putting the whole story of global warming and its ramifications in one place--an inspiring 96-minute film. Moreover, after seeing the film you will understand why this issue is so important to Al Gore--he was inspired by a college professor and has studied the problem for nearly all of his adult life and has championed the need for action all through his political career--which now appears to be incredible foresight given the mounting body of evidence that global warming is having disastrous effects on every continent and every part of our eco-system.
We all need to act now, before it is too late!!! Gore notes the positive steps that we can take that are within our grasp to reduce the levels of carbon-dioxide and other greenhouse gases back to 1970 levels.
If you have doubt, as I had, about whether the phenomenon and effects of global warming are as significant as they have been portrayed, this movie will remove that doubt. It all begins to make sense in this movie how the interrelationships of the changes cause serious consequences everywhere on the earth. And it has causes I would not have even thought possible. I just noticed a news article today about Bark beetles ravaging western US forests--which scientists attribute to warming climate because the region in recent years has not sustained periods of sub-zero temperatures that once dealt a fatal blow to beetle populations. After seeing the movie, I really believe it--this is just one of the many phenomena that Gore notes during his lecture in the movie.
One other important point that Gore makes is that the scientific community is in agreement about seriousness of the problem. Politicians and businessmen raising questions about whether there is agreement have a hidden agenda to protect the commercial interests of their constituents and their industries--hence they view global warming as an "inconvenient truth" which is in their interests to obfuscate. In doing so, they have created a general misperception in the media that there is disagreement in the scientific community about whether global warming is a significant problem.
This is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen, both because of the topic and the presentation. Don't wait to see this--it will change your whole perspective.
Movie Review: Confronting Global Warming...TODAY!
Summary: 5 Stars
The winner of the 2006 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH makes an extremely concise and persuasive case regarding one of the great issues in the history of the human race. That issue is global warming, and the largely uncontested fact that the billions of people on this planet are doing serious damage to their home by causing it.
Filmed by noted TV director Davis Guggenheim, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH spotlights the crusade taken on by former Vice-President Al Gore to make the issue of global warming THE paramount issue of our time. And given all that we've seen firsthand around the world (droughts in Africa; the melting of glaciers; the devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina; and dozens of U.S. cities breaking all-time heat records during the summer of 2005), there is very little doubt that unchecked human activity is the culprit. Gore himself reflects on how his time in public office and his many decades of studying this problem forced him into action, and how so many of his colleagues in Washington, most of them beholden to Big Oil, were so blithely brushing off global warming as "the biggest hoax ever perpetrated." But the facts he shows us in his PowerPoint presentations, plus first-hand evidence in those parts of the world hardest hit by the dramatic climate changes that global warming has wrought so far are extremely difficult to ignore.
Often thought of as stiff while a politician, Gore is now something of a modern-day sage (except, of course, to those on the political and corporate far-right, who still view him as a threat), With Mr, Guggenheim's help, he makes the case for solving global warming very clear in AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH. The means to combat this problem are in our hands right now--it only requires the will to make them happen. And all the complaints that automakers and big corporations make about how such changes will negatively impact the economy are soundly debunked here.
In a time where there have been numerous documentary films that have made a huge commercial, cinematic, and emotional impact, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH makes its case particularly clear: We humans need to change the way we live, so that fifty or a hundred years from now, we're not faced with a global crisis that may never be solved. And on that level, it's a masterpiece of its kind.
Movie Review: A Wake-Up call for America and the World. Watch and Learn.
Summary: 5 Stars
As I read the past negative reviews, I can see that these people have no concept of science. I'm a conservative republican and never thought I would side with Al Gore on ANY issue. Yes, I'm one of those "right-wingers", love Fox news, Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter. But as a scientist, specifically a chemist, this movie explains in layman's terms the Science of global warming. I was most impressed. Yes, he talks negatively about the current Administration, the loss of the 2000 election, as well as personal matters, but this is done to explain his story about how he's trying to change other people's perceptions. Get over political party affiliations and look at the science!
This video goes through the basic science of global warming. He also explains what has happened in the past and makes a persuasive prediction for the future. Mr. Gore demonstrates the cause and effect of altering our atmosphere by changing weather patterns and ocean currents. I experienced 7 of the 10 typhoons that hit Japan in 2004 that Al talks about in the film...that wasn't fun. He provides ways to improve our situation, one person and household at a time. The one thing he doesn't explain is the effect of the massive human population explosion. We are our worst enemy by consuming so many resources. Look in your garbage can after one day to see all the waste and unnecessary packaging.
All Americans need to take their own "political agenda blinders" off and stop seeing what you just want to see. We all need to come together and change the course we're on. Global Warming won't affect us as much as future generations, but some day I don't want my grandson/granddaughter to ask "Why I didn't do anything to stop it."
If my scientifically challenged 14 year daughter can get something out of it, you can too. Just put political bias aside for 90 minutes and then conduct your own literature research from credible scientific sources.
One reviewer said that this is just "theory." Well, to use an old cliché', bears excreting in the woods is a theory until you either step in it or see him doing it. We're "stepping" in global warming now. Do we clean it up or keep stepping in it?
Thank you Al Gore! (I can't tell you how much it hurt for a Republican to say that!)