(Like when he introduces himself as the guy “who used to be the next president of the United States.”)
That changes here, where we see a Gore who’s unafraid of speaking forcefully for what he believes, who’s learned to show some passion, and - get this - even a little irony. Gore the candidate was never that inspiring, and the common impression was that the man consisted of nothing but opinion group-driven positions his handlers gave him. The idea of the notoriously wooden Gore speaking from a lectern for 90 minutes may be enough to make your eyes glaze over, but really, it’s not that bad. Directed simply by Davis Guggenheim, “An Inconvenient Truth” shows Gore giving a multimedia lecture that he’s been “touring” with these past few years. The reality, which Gore seeks to show as incontrovertible, is that the world is heating up, and carbon emissions are the cause. Dick once put it, “Reality is what’s still there when you stop believing in it.” Bush in the 2000 election, a man now long outside the Washington arena, with a sober documentary film entitled “An Inconvenient Truth.” Gore’s film takes on the issue of global warming and reminds us that, as novelist Philip K. Along comes Al Gore, former vice president and loser to George W.
