An Inconvenient Truth

Davis Guggenheim, USA, 2006, 100 minutes

"I'm Al Gore, I used to be the next president of the United States" - six years after his defeat in the presidential elections Al Gore finally reveals what he’s been up to recently. Instead of looking for bin Laden in Iraq, he decided to fight something that he can actually prove that exists - namely global warming. One of the Kyoto Protocol’s signatories travels around the world and gives talks to everybody, who would like to listen - academics, church groups, businessmen, farmers. This campaign, though, has nothing to do with politics, presidential campaign or obsession with power. Instead, it’s a struggle for a global cause.

"An inconvenient truth" is a recording of Gore’s stunning, eye-opening lecture on the causes and effects of global warming, or "climate crisis" as he puts it. The filmmakers accompany Gore during his travels and meetings with horrified audiences all over the world and at the same time they try to find the source of his inner strength and motivation to go on. In the world obsessed with money and preservation of wealth and human beauty through plastic surgeries, nature is forgotten. It is worth waking up for 100 minutes while watching "An inconvenient truth". Nothing will ever be the same after this film. You owe it to yourselves!

Review by Jan Naszewski
Written for EUFS Programme Spring 2007