An Inconvenient Truth is a documentary film about climate change, specifically global warming, presented by former United States Vice President Al Gore and directed by Davis Guggenheim.
The film opened in USA on May 2006. The film’s distributor, Paramount Classics, is donating 5% of the box office receipts and Gore is donating all of his proceeds from the film to The Alliance for Climate Protection (of which Gore is both founder and chairman).
Gore, who with this movie won the Oscar as best documentary in February 2007, will be in Milan the 14th of June. I am sorry I live so far from there, I would have liked very much to meet him. Although he has been accused of hypocrisy because his “mansion uses more than twice the electricity in one month than the average household does in an entire year“, I think he has made an invaluable service to humanity because with this movie he has considerably helped in bringing the global warming problem into people conscience.
The movie has been on show in Italian cinemas since March 2007 and its DVD has been recently released in shops. When it was shown in a cinema in my town I went to watch it and invited all my friends to come with me. I believe it’s crucial that as many people as possible watch this movie, that’s why I am trying to spread it by talking about it in this blog and by buying some DVD copies and lending it to friends and relatives.
If you, reader, haven’t watched it yet I urge you to do it and to invite your friends to do the same. Paraphrasing a statement by Hiro Nakamura, “Spread the word, save the world“.
i watched this documentary. very nice and informative.
impressive!! tnx for suggesting!