An Inconvenient Truth

My wife and I went to see An Inconvenient Truth this afternoon. (She's actually seen Gore give the talk live, but still...) I think the movie would have been strengthened by dropping the few minutes' criticism of the Bush White House's opposition to climate science and rewriting of scientific reports on global warming. At this point, who doesn't know that the White House's attitude to scientific truth is one that would seemed too relativist for the Yale English department in the heyday of deconstruction?

But overall, I thought it was great. Granted, you're basically watching a guy... give a... Powerpoint presentation. A very well-done one, and actually Gore uses Keynote, but still. Clearly we've reached some significant moment in our culture when you can make a movie of a guy's multimedia presentation.

I have to wonder, what talk will Dick Cheney give hundreds of times after he leaves office? I look forward to seeing the answer.

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Comments

"I take the Fifth..."

[Keith Demko]

I don't think Al Gore could have made a movie without the requisite shots at Bush, but I agree that this one was entertaining as it was simply frightening