Film
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power + Al Gore satellite Q&A
- Director
- Jon Shenk, Bonni Cohen
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 98 mins
The Orange Buffoon’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Agreement sent the directors of this timely, long-gestating follow-up to David Guggenheim’s Oscar-winning 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth scurrying back to the edit suite to re-work it with Trump as the villain of the piece.
Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk take over for the sequel, which demonstrates how Al Gore‘s predictions in the first film a decade ago, which were ridiculed by climate change deniers, are now demonstrably coming true. An Inconvenient Truth used animation to show the site of the World Trade Centre being flooded, which brought howls of contempt from the alt-right. Now Gore deploys news footage of Super Storm Sandy to show how climate scientists have been proven right. The problem the film faces is in maintaining an optimistic tone now that the Americans, in their wisdom, have elected a man who believes that climate change is a hoax. For a pure facepalm moment, look no further than the archive footage of Trump berating Obama for addressing climate change rather than, ahem, serious matters. This preview screening is preceded by a live satellite broadcast of Al Gore in conversation.
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