Planet doomed, film at 11.

You know, I'd be a lot happier about Too Little Too Late's subject matter being in the news all the time if it weren't directly related to our civilization's eminent demise.

Finally saw An Inconvenient Truth last weekend, which was overall an interesting piece of work, telling me a few different things I hadn't known and reminding me of all the things I'd tried to forget. However, I had real issues with the lack of segues between the lecture sections and "Al Gore: Man Behind the Macintosh Powerbook"; while some of the personal stories were fantastic, the political angle (most specifically, the digs at Bush) felt really out of step and almost petty. Especially since I wasn't expecting a great deal of politics -- the advertising puts this movie in the context of nonpartisan edcuation, which is then totally betrayed by the content. It felt like a campaign ad for Al Gore. That's not a way to reach closed minds.

I'm not saying that you can separate the politics from this issue; I just know that this issue is important enough to warrent crossing party lines. Global warming, at its core, is a human issue. Has An Inconvenient Truth changed as many minds as it needs to change? Or, because of its political bias, just convinced liberals of things we already sort of knew?

It's still an important piece of work, though, a great compilation of all the mounting evidence. Don't get me wrong about that. Am I rooting for Al Gore to be the second man to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize? (Three non-Googled guesses as to who was the first!) Sure. He's a cool dude. Even without the beard.

Labels: moving pictures, not quite like the west wing, projects:too little too late

posted by Liz  # 3:03 PM

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