I've been to the cinema yesterday, it is far more exciting than staying in his room reading lectures notes or lengthy articles. Anyway, next exam is on, let me remenber…, tuesday, it's quite far away :). And furthermore I went for a so called intelligent film, I think I was allowed to :)
So I've seen the Unconvenient Truth, (La vérité qui dérange, in french), the movie featuring Al Gore, the former american vice-president. It deals with global warming and climate changes. The film is easy to see (some would said 'spectacular' in a pejorative way) and not too hard to understand (to put in in a nutshell, it targets the ordinary American people…). I didn't learn many things as I'm quite interested by the topic and already read things about it, but it puts basic things in a way that everybody should understand and be afraid of. Especially American people I mean…
Because even if the film is not so extraordinary in itself, even if we see Al Gore and his life quite too much, we cannot help but thinking that it could have an effect on American politics and American people. And this is, too my mind, the most important point of this American film made for American people: it seems that they're becoming aware of all this, and given on the one hand their weight in the whole process and on the other hand their present official position, it is quite a good news for all of us!
Another question that raise seeing Al Gore so brilliant and well informed in the film is why these crazy Americans chose Georges Walker Bush twice for being their president ... but it's just another question I guess!
For more information, you can visit www.climatecrisis.org, the official website.
