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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017 · Film · documentary · 100 min
Part of An Inconvenient Collection
Directed by Jon Shenk, Bonni Cohen
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy. Cameras follow him behind the scenes—in moments private and public, funny and poignant—as he pursues the empowering notion that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion.
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We should focus our efforts where there is the most bang per buck:
- Cleaner energy for developing countries, esp. China and India. Pay for their solar panels, to prevent new coal plants.
- Research clean energy technology — solar, wind, hydroelectric. Drive maximum efficiency, and minimum cost.
- Raise awareness worldwide. Keep talking.
This documentary was informative: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/an_inconvenient_sequel_truth_to_power/ (2017, 10 years after the original)
2018: https://www.eco-business.com/news/coal-is-in-decline-globally-but-asia-is-driving-new-plant-development/
Yep. Systems that boil a movie down to a single number are fundamentally problematic. FiveThirtyEight has an article today about this topic (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/al-gores-new-movie-exposes-the-big-flaw-in-online-movie-ratings/), focusing on polarizing movies like An Inconvenient Sequel which end up with middling scores that don't properly reflect the fact that most ratings are either a 1 or a 10.
A good context to this piece would be the recent NYTimes article ("Attacked by Rotten Tomatoes") that claims Rotten Tomatoes is damaging sales for films. Everyone is to blame except for the studios, who are producing bad movies that no one wants: endless sequels, remakes, and adaptations of successes in other media.
If An Inconvenient Sequel really were controversial, that would be all the more reason for its success. Controversy sells. In fact, it's the least-risky kind of film to make: a sequel to a widely-lauded, successful film (An Inconvenient Truth has 93% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). Hollywood execs can cry me a river.
Yes, that's what I do as well.
Also, I go to the movies more often to see the films I'm actually interested in.
Baby Driver was my favorite movie of the year--in fact, the best movie I've seen in many years.
Dunkirk, Detroit, and Inconvenient Sequel all good as well!