An Inconvenient Truth
Year: | 2006 |
Production Co: | Lawrence Bender Productions |
Director: | Davis Guggenheim |
Producer: | Lawrence Bender |
Cast: | Al Gore |
Those in power will seldom argue for such sweeping change, because the changes needed to reverse environmental degradation would erode much of the power they rest upon. So there's an undeniable element of 'even though it's too late for me to do anything, I told you so' about An Inconvenient Truth.
It features Gore giving the slideshow presentation he's honed over the last several years to argue for global warming being the result of pollution, and the urgency needed to address it.
The presentation is interspersed with Gore crossing the country to deliver it, ruminating about his mission and telling us about the formative years that made him an environmentalist.
These interludes aren't nearly as interesting as the hard facts of his famous PowerPoint file, and Gore's still a consummate politician - his homilies of life down on the farm making him what he is today are classic politico showmanship.
But the graphs and figures speak for themselves and while they're in a much-condensed form, they make An Inconvenient Truth a very powerful movie.