Bryan Lynas/Paramount Classicsīut as I said, the movie is not about him. Gore as a stiff, humorless speaker, someone to make fun of rather than take seriously.Īn image of a glacier in Peru, before it was diminished by climate change. But really, the idea that worrying about the effect of carbon-dioxide emissions on the world's climate makes you some kind of liberal kook is as tired as the image of Mr. His presence is, in some ways, a distraction, since it guarantees that "An Inconvenient Truth" will become fodder for the cynical, ideologically facile sniping that often passes for political discourse these days. Gore's voice-over reflections on his life in and out of politics. Gore has given many times over the last few years, interspersed with interviews and Mr. It consists mainly of a multimedia presentation on climate change that Mr. Guggenheim's movie is not really about Al Gore.
That "An Inconvenient Truth" should not have to exist is a reason to be grateful that it does.Īppearances to the contrary, Mr. It is, after all, the job of political leaders and policymakers to protect against possible future calamities, to respond to the findings of science and to persuade the public that action must be taken to protect the common interest.īut when this does not happen - and it is hardly a partisan statement to observe that, in the case of global warming, it hasn't - others must take up the responsibility: filmmakers, activists, scientists, even retired politicians. CANNES, France, May 23 - "An Inconvenient Truth," Davis Guggenheim's new documentary about the dangers of climate change, is a film that should never have been made.