After sending off my August On The Town articles, I jettisoned off to Studio 28 to see An Inconvenient Truth. I have not been to film in some time and after weighing the options, I felt this was the one to see.
Turns out it was the right choice since it was eye-opening. Given how terrible I was doing last week combined with my no news fast and fragile emotional state, the film is one filled with a slivers of hope and humanity. I really do believe all the hype now.
A lot of documentaries can render one to a state of paralysis. This film was edited in a way to allow the viewer to digest each science portion only giving enough data for one to chew on for a moment before returning to the hard data.
While other filmmakers have tried to employ this technique, I think it works beautifully here.
In a funny aside, my father and I was talking today and he brought up that he takes 17 pills a day. As we talked about the film and he began to cast doubt since Al Gore was a part of it, I simply said, "Let me see if I get this straight. You trust scientist when they tell you to take 17 pills but scientisst who tell you to cut your environmentally damaging lifestyle you ignore?"
Until this moment I never saw the argument this way. It is fun sometimes to have a hard line right wing father.
Most times he ends our calls with a bit of laugh as he says, "You are my lovable liberal son."
For a hard liner, he can be pretty cool. And I am sure he imagines right after our calls I race out to hug a tree.
And just like I told my father to do, this film should be required viewing for every American.
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