![]() Quite the opposite actually as it deals with one of the most crucial issues of our times and this alone makes it a really important work. All in all, it will probably not have the same awards success like the first film, but this by no means means it is a weak film. But now I am talking about the problem per se and not really about the film anymore. There is no real connection to tragedy because it is such a creeping process and it is true that you mostly need time lapse photography to really get a visual impact of what is happening. ![]() For example you hear 100 people got killed by a flood, a hurricane or a tornado, but you don't read that 100 people died from global warming. So what can be done if Gore's words cannot change people's minds as honestly it is highly unlikely things will look any different with another decade passing? Maybe one reason is that climate change is never cited as a direct cause. The speeches by Gore feel a bit as if we are in the audience watching him live and this is definitely not a coincidence. That should not say something negative about Gore's efforts though, it is very impressive what he does and how he sacrifices his time for the cause. The Trump election says a lot to that regard and so does the US getting out of the Paris treaty. I personally am not (really) one of the non-believers, but sadly I am at a point where I doubt that people still care about not destroying the planet for further generations. But his fighting in here is mostly about people convincing because even after so many years the biggest obstacle is that many people still deny the existence. The entire film basically focuses on for American Vice President Al Gore's fight against climate change. The director of that one is also a producer here. ![]() The title here gives already away of course that this is the sequel (not really long-awaited I guess) to the Oscar-winning "An Inconvenient Truth" from about a decade earlier. "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" is an American 95-minute film from this year (2017) by Cohen and Shenk who have collaborated in the past too. Reviewed by Horst_In_Translation 6 / 10 Gore keeps fighting the fight ![]()
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