AN INCONVENIENT
SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER:
AL GORE SUCCESSFULLY CONTINUES
HIS ENVIRONMENTAL MISSION, EVEN IF IT’S NOT QUITE AS IMPACTFUL THE SECOND TIME
AROUND!
By Nico
Beland
Movie
Review: *** out of 4
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Fight
like your world depends on it in An
Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
It’s not often a documentary film
gets a sequel, only other time I could think of was 2004’s Trekkies 2, well when your movie happens to be one of the most talked
about documentaries for many years a follow-up seems inevitable. That’s the
case with former vice president, Al Gore’s 2006 film that warned the people of
global warming, An Inconvenient Truth
which was a huge hit upon its release, won two Academy Awards®, and helped spread the awareness of global warming
and what can be done to prevent it.
Eleven years later Al Gore strikes
again with the sequel, An Inconvenient
Sequel: Truth to Power which tackles climate change and his attempts to
persuade the government leaders of the world to invest in renewable energy
culminating in the signing of the Paris
Climate Agreement in 2016. Al invites us on a journey across the world to
influence international climate policies and train an army of climate champions
to fight alongside him in his tireless battle against global warming and his
quest to find a new, clean, reusable energy source for the planet.
Al Gore also goes into detail about
the impact An Inconvenient Truth had
after its release as well as predictions from the first movie that eventually
came true, covers various disasters and catastrophic events around the world,
and even subtly antagonizes President Trump while still managing to pay tribute
to the people involved in the natural disasters and to the survivors and people
who lost their lives during the terrorist attacks in Paris a couple years ago.
Overall, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power probably didn’t need to
exist but I appreciate the film for not rehashing the exact same global warming
theme from the first movie and instead expands on it and takes a few more risks
with its content. Nevertheless, the message of the film is just as strong and
inspirational as the one in the first movie.
After seeing this movie, I gained
more awareness of the effects of climate change on the world and what I could
do to support a new energy source that’s more environmentally friendly than what
we’re currently stuck with. However, I still think the first film did a better
job presenting its information to the viewer, from using a Futurama clip to explain the concept of global warming to a CG frog
in boiling water, sadly we don’t get much of that here which left me a little
disappointed but it didn’t ruin the movie.
Despite being given a film rating
that is usually used for pointless marketing purposes, the footage shown of the
heavy floods and storms are pretty intense and frightening. I don’t get scared
easily when watching movies but when you see real-life footage of heavy winds
and massive flooding in Miami Beach, chances are it’ll be a lot more terrifying
than any horror movie and it really leaves an impact on you.
Like its predecessor, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
is a documentary that really opens your eyes to the entire world and shows how
far we’ve come along since the first movie’s release in 2006. More places are
aware of solar energy as well as taking full advantage of the concept, and what
a huge benefit it could have on the entire planet.
If you loved the first movie and
want to see Al Gore cover more in his never-ending battle against global
warming and climate change, then this is one “Truth to Power” not to be missed. I can’t say you’ll enjoy it as
much as the first movie but hopefully the moral and impact of the movie will be
enough for you to speak out and make our home a better place, because if Trump’s
not going to do it then the American people will, the film literally closes
with that statement and it couldn’t be any more perfect.
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