Inconvenient, inconvenient...perhaps the truth about this movie is a little bit too.
I was eager to learn about "global warming" and to watch a kick-me-back-to-earth documentary such as Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 or even Spurlock's Supersize Me (no political opinions engaged whatsoever), I was left all alone to cry on my not-so-well spent movie ticket.
The whole movie is based on a lecture (monologue?) led by the (almost) ex-president of the USA, Al Gore, which is supposed to convince a crowd of his militants and some green "hippies" often pulling off dreadlocks. Seriously, how much can you laugh and clap at a man that is giving you a lesson about how to reduce your CO2 emissions to zero (supposedly, you're not allowed to breathe anymore) showing off in a truck that burns easy twice as much as a European car if you're not objectively already a convinced partisan?
First, this movie has very little value as a document in itself. We can learn all the basics about global warming and CO2 emissions but we don't get to see many interesting pictures nor views, apart from the ones shown in the trailer. Not glorifying Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 nor his Bowling For Columbine but in those, the director spent some time gathering up (or making up, that's a matter of opinion) documents, interviews, etc. Al Gore doesn't get tired while speaking...but we get. Well he could have made a post on Youtube, I would be richer today for sure.
Secondly, while watching, one could get a weird feeling. Ambivalent. Between two slides, the director (Guggenheim) can't help giving some shots of Gore's family history, how much he's done for "the" cause, how his father quit growing tobacco when the first correlations between tobacco and lung cancers proved to be true, how his son was between life and death after an accident, how much he is tired of all the world's global problems...ups sorry, was I supposed to cry? It is like somebody trying to manipulate you but in a very naive way, trying to get to your feelings. I know he's not the first (see Moore for example), but that ostentatiously, really?
You can be as green as you want, you are not allowed to be that dull. The Academy Award Ceremony was fitting very well for Gore's document: standing ovation, 2 Academy Awards, Al Gore got to have to longest speech, then standing ovation again. Had anyone seen this movie?or just the trailer?neither? No matter, everybody, after the ceremony, went back home in his "green" car, producing twice (or more) as much CO2 as a war tank (Al Gore in the loop again). But don't worry, because "you also can reduce your CO2 emissions to zero". Just remember to take a deep breath.
Igo
Verdict:
Rated? Not guilty
Worth watching? Guilty
Final Grade 8/20
watch the trailer
2 comments:
I could have told you that it wasn't worth watching before you spent your money...
Question: if you saw the trailer, why did you go to see the movie anyways? Do you like to suffer? Are you masochistic?
By the way, can you imagine what kind of president Al Gore would have made? Yikes!
hum...i should advise you to watch the trailer one more time. It deserves an oscar in itself, just check out the cut, the deep voice...fascinating I think...the only good thing about this movie I guess. The rest i abysmal=)
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