My "Al Gore - French experience"... live today

[tocqueville]

Today I went to the movies to see "An Inconvenient Truth". I was invited by a friend and since both of us had engagements in the evening, we chose to go to an early session. So we arrived round 13.30.

The theater was full because several high-school classes in the ages of 16-17 (with a good part of obvious Arabic background) were already there with their teachers and there were very few other "regular" adult spectators.

I thought "Oh, My God, they have been commanded, this is going to be hell". Of course the about 100 teens were noisy, but when the projection started and after some reminders from the teachers, the kids sat quiet. And they sat quiet during the whole show, which by the way was in original version, French subtitles. When you look at the movie, it is for a great part like assisting to a conference. But there was some laughter at the jokes, specially when Al "saved" the frog from the boiling water, some "oooh" when it was explained that Al's older sister died of lung cancer. And some jeers when Bush appeared on the screen... so it was obvious that their attention was caught.

The best was for the end : when the last sentences started to roll on the screen, they rose and applauded. And some voices - some of them with for a French, unmistakable Arabic accent - shouted "Al Gore President !"

My French friend and I left with a smile agreeing that the younger generation is seeing things in maybe a much smarter way than many of their parents, and this regarding any country... including the USA....

[ClassWarrior]

1. Great story, tocque. Viva la Gore!

B-)

NGU.

[Mme. Defarge]

4. Et ...

Vive la France!

[NYCGirl]

2. A very cool story! The only standout thing in the audience the last time I

saw the film was Danny DeVito and his kids — who entered the theater in front of us.

[Gabi Hayes]

3. does Chertoff know about this terra training session? this is scary.

a bunch of A-rabs and surrender monkeys, conspiring to overthrow the US government

we must invade posthaste!

[reggie the dog]

5. even here in the var

Even here in the backcountry of the Var in France I am pleasantly surpriesed by the openess of spirit found in the people under 30. Not to say that the middle aged people are all that bad, but the young are far cooler about not caring about peoples race etc.

They also tend to believe that the greenhouse effect is real....imagine that.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Thanks for posting tocqueville,

while Al believes in saving frogs, not to mention the rest of life as we know it, Bush believed in blowing frogs up and has brought this form of "compassionate conservatism" to the White House.

Kicked and recommended

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