An Inconvenient Truth : Al Gore

This film knew how to capture the emotions of it's audience. From the very beginning when Al Gore was talking about the election with the flashbacks of the "recount" process. Al Gore did a good job at wanting the viewers to feel sorry for him. And throughout the film he mentioned events that happened in his life from his son being in the hospital to his tobacco farm. The whole tone and style of this was film was to in my opinion was to make you feel sorry for him and on the other side was to keep you in awe of what was going on with global warming. It was the same tone and style throughout the whole film, which was good, it never seemed to get off base to the quiet, somberness that was intended.

I thought it was interesting that Al Gore brought personally things in this film, considering it was about Global Warming or "climate change", whatever you prefer to call it. Al Gore was trying to relay the message of climate change and how it has been and WILL affect our planet if we can not unite and put a stop it. Gore said that he has given is powerpoint slide show speech, thousands of times trying to get the message out. He does back up his argument with what I would assume are facts. He seemed like he knew what he was talking about. When it came to the powerpoint presentation, I was impressed. It was just when I took it a different direction where I got confused.

I was unsure and confused as to what his family had to do with it. I felt as if he wanted us to feel sorry for him and he grabbed our attention that way so that we would take him more seriously when it came down to the films overall purpose, Global Warming. I feel since he brought his families sob stories into the film, I believe he lost some of his credibility. Overall, it just felt like Al Gore was moping around trying everything in his power to get our attention.

If Al Gore didn't make it seem so personal and if he would have jumped right into the issue at hand, Global Warming, I would have took him more seriously. To me it would have been more credible if Gore had left out the personal matters.

This film did not have a huge effect on me and my position on global warming. I do understand that Al Gore has had a passion for this issue for many years and has been trying to get the word out, however I personally did not like Gore being the main person in this film. I simply would have rather seen someone more neutral in the matter when came from a political side. From the start of this film, I knew I would just look at Gore as the formal vice president and the guy who "should of won" the election in 2000, not Al Gore the environmentalist. From a personal standpoint I could not get passed that and therefore the overall effect on ME was that I lost interest as soon I heard, Al Gore.