'An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power' A Review

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power is a environmental documentary, a follow up to 2006's Oscar winning An Inconvenient Truth. Whereas the original was more directly education about the causes, conditions, and effects of climate change this film is more personal following Gore on his chosen vocation to enact real tangible change and depicts the actual effects global warming has had over the past decade- from melting glaciers to the frequent and tragic extreme weather events that the original film foretold. The film also shows us a little more about Gore the man, touching on his family, their history in politics, and his 2000 presidential bid and how it shaped him.

The Al Gore we saw in An Inconvenient Truth was much more personable and loose than the politician we had previously known and in this film we see him even clearer, the film is not only an update on the climate change crisis, the set backs and advancements, a much needed call to action given the political landscape, it is also a somewhat intimate portrayal of a man who championed a cause, who wars between hope and despair, an aging and battered knight of Mother Earth who straps on his armor(suit) every day and continues on despite the overwhelming opposition.

And for all the negative environmental effects that have occurred between the time of the original film and the present, and the projected disasters inevitably to come, the film does offer hope. Highlighting the Paris Agreement, the advancement in renewable energy technology and its implementation, and a town in Texas use of close to 100% renewable energy. But with the election of Trump which the film portrays but doesn't address directly, the call to action at the end of the film is its most important part. Gore gives a speech to a crowd which inspires and energizes and gives us a glimpse of the President we might have had. That scene in and of itself is worth the watch.

Necessary viewing in our current time of turmoil.

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