Ozone Man

UNIVERSAL REMOTE

The next "Most Controversial Movie of the Year!" will undoubtedly be Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Basically a filmed version of a PowerPoint presentation he has been giving for years, I originally thought it sounded about as exciting as counting butterfly ballots. But when it played at Sundance, it blew the lid off the joint.

Jeffrey Wells:

An Inconvenient Truth is Gore's crowning achievement...the summation of his life...the reason he was put on this earth to become a politican and a stirrer-upper and influencer of public opinion.

Because if people see Truth in sufficient numbers, Gore will have done more to save this planet from ruination than anyone in his realm has ever managed.

It's due out May 24th and my guess it will be a major Talking Point for everybody. It will also bring up a lot of "What If Al Had Won?" ponderings from people on the Left. It's getting hard to image and Gore/Bush comparison working out favorably for the Boy King in anyone's mind except for die hard Righties.

Richard Cohen:

You cannot see this film and not think of George W. Bush, the man who beat Gore in 2000. Bush has been studiously anti-science, a man of applied ignorance who has undernourished his mind with the empty calories of comfy dogma. For instance, his insistence on abstinence as the preferred method of birth control would be laughable were it not so reckless. It is similar to Bush's initial approach to global warming. It may be that Gore will do more good for his country and the world with this movie than Bush ever did by winning in 2000.

David Remnick:

An Inconvenient Truth is a brilliantly lucid, often riveting attempt to warn Americans off our hellbent path to global suicide ...

The catch, of course, is that the audience-of-one that most urgently needs to see the film and take it to heart—namely, the man who beat Gore in the courts six years ago—does not much believe in science or, for that matter, in any information that disturbs his prejudices, his fantasies, or his sleep. Inconvenient truths are precisely what this White House is structured to avoid and deny ...

It is past time to recognize that, over a long career, [Gore's] policy judgment and his moral judgment alike have been admirable and acute. [He] has been right about global warming since holding the first congressional hearing on the topic, twenty-six years ago. He was right about the role of the Internet, right about the need to reform welfare and cut the federal deficit, right about confronting Slobodan Milosevic in Bosnia and Kosovo. Since September 11th, he has been right about constitutional abuse, right about warrantless domestic spying, and right about the calamity of sanctioned torture. And in the case of Iraq, both before the invasion and after, he was right—courageously right—to distrust as fatally flawed the political and moral good faith, operational competence, and strategic wisdom of the Bush Administration.

After six years of The Boy King and his faith-based science, I think people are beginning to cast off the shackles of government-imposed ignorance. Evolution and Global Warming are just two "controversial" subject that have once again gained favor with mainstreamers. Hopefully this trend, unlike the overheating of our planet, will continue when these same folks vote at the polls.

View the trailer here.