Directed by Davis Guggenheim
Starring Al Gore
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
What I liked most of this film was the class lecture hall way of getting information across. I know, that doesn't sound like much of a documentary but it did get its point across. No slick charisma. No guerrilla camera crew. Just facts. It took me back to school - with slides, graphs and charts and it accomplished what it set out to do: educate.
Though the film sticks to solid facts, it also looks at Al Gore's personal feelings on the matter; his campaign to reverse the effects of global warming, in hopes to invote the audience to do that same. Though I didn't share the same reflections as Gore in those little interludes between lectures, I did feel a personal awe in the effects the subject matter had on this earth and to me, combined with the charts and such, and the personal reflections, made the point all the more clearer. And if by the end of the movie you're feeling despair or fear, the move tells you exactly what you need to do... how many more clear can you be?
Unless you're a sly email writer like Mr. Ian Morrison... who?
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