Gore's global-warming film is riveting, inspiring (Seatlle PI review)

[Kadie]

Friday, June 2, 2006

Gore's global-warming film is riveting, inspiring

By WILLIAM ARNOLD
P-I MOVIE CRITIC

It is no hyperbole to say that the Al Gore global-warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," is the decade's scariest movie. Indeed, it's a mind-boggling disaster epic that draws its special power from the fact that we are both the villains and victims of the story.

Gore-haters and global-warming naysayers will try to dismiss it, but it's hard to imagine how anyone -- no matter what their political or religious persuasion, or personal feelings about the former vice president -- can sit through it and not be profoundly affected.

The film is essentially a deluxe filmed version of the "slide show" Gore has been presenting and refining since 1978, in which he concisely lays out the case that our carbon-dioxide emissions trapped in the Earth's atmosphere are systematically destroying the environment.

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The film is, of course, exactly the kind of didactic, issue-oriented documentary that tends to preach to the converted, and Gore himself (who had to be persuaded to take part in the project) originally doubted that anyone would buy a ticket to hear his grim message.

But this expertly put together lecture, with illuminating animation and special effects, is absolutely riveting. It's also strangely entertaining and so ultimately inspiring that it seems destined to be the biggest "event" documentary since "Fahrenheit 9/11."

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/272438_inconvenient02q.html?source=rss

[Turbineguy]

1. He says 10 years

if he's right that means if the GOP steals the next 2 presidential elections, the planet is finished.

[mom cat]

2. I just got my tickets and am encouraging everyone I know to go.