The rise of theatrically released documentaries has clearly reached a self-sustaining point, since what is essentially a filmed lecture has been released to rave reviews and strong box office. While it spices up proceedings with biographical interludes, the material is riveting enough in its own right: it’s Al Gore, global warming, and An Inconvenient Truth.
Gore has been a passionate global warming campaigner since college, giving slideshows and working within politics to try and foster environmental change. But since his ‘defeat’ in the 2000 US presidential election, Gore has reinvented himself by devoting himself wholeheartedly to the issue, giving an increasingly sophisticated and continuously updated slideshow lecture around the world in the intervening years (he estimates he has presented it over a thousand times). Now, Gore and director Davis Guggenheim have brought the material to a wider audience using cinema distribution, given that time is of the essence for the planet’s wellbeing.
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