Roger Ebert, a guy who is hardly known for political or activist agendas, has written a glowing, disturbing review of Al Gore/Davis Guggenheim's "An Inconvenient Truth":
It is not only an important film, but a good one. Guggenheim has found a way to make facts and statistics into drama and passion. He organizes Gore's arguments into visuals that overwhelm us. Gore begins with the famous photograph "Earthrise," which was the first photo taken of Earth from outer space. Then he shows later satellite photos. It is absolutely clear that the white areas are disappearing, that snow and ice is melting, that the shape of continents is changing. The polar areas and Greenland are shrinking, lakes have disappeared, the snows of Kilimanjaro have vanished, and the mountain reveals its naked summit to the sky for the first time in human history.
You owe it to yourself to see this film. If that sounds overdramatic, I understand. I could not have imagined writing that before seeing the film myself....
Read the whole, unsettling review here.
In Vancouver, "An Inconvenient Truth," opens Friday, June 9th, at Tinseltown and Fifth Ave..
Promo screening, June 8th, 7 pm, at Tinseltown or Fifth Ave., to be confirmed.
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