As planned, I went to see the film tonight. Featuring Al Gore is one of the reasons I went for it, and it was also interesting to view a documentary about the greenhouse effect...in Paris, I found that the film was still screening at l'Entrepot (a cinema which I have not gone for more than one year), and so everything appeared to be perfectly for a Thurs evening. On the same day, I talked to my colleagues about skiing. It is a good proposal for a family to spend an enjoyable Christmas. The situation for 2006 is that the weather is quite warm in France, and there is not yet any snowfall up till this second week of December. The skiing operators are facing a headache at those 'uncapped' skiing sites on the slope. I understood that the weather was getting warm globally, and that it was something 'reasonable' to me (or to others too perhaps). This is global warming that exists, ok...what I thought was that within a week or two, there should be some snow so that people can still go for their sporty vacation as scheduled at year end. But who guarantees actually?
I went to see the film in the evening. It was like a lecture rather than a film. Quite intensive and precise, the documentary pinpointed the situation in our world. True, we know a general concept about the issue and the possible impact, but a more scientific approach with data support would be a good approach to such a documentation, and there we got. I admire Al Gore's passion and will to work on the issue, disregarding any interpretation of his political and commercial intention. He may be right to do a film rather than preaching thousands times around the world. The approach applies to Hawkings too as he is doing his time theory on screen now. The film was a bit heavy but it was smoothly edited and presented. There are three things I got from watching the film: an update and recognition of the greenhouse effect issue, a good memory of the geography lessons I had in secondary school and a move by the charismatic presentation of Al Gore. Some remarks about the current capacity of Al Gore...he is actually one of the board directors of Apple and an advisor of Google. You will therefore understand more about the filming touch of Davis Guggenheim on the ibook etc. The atmosphere and comfort of l'Entrepot is always a stroke of film fans. There is a website of the documentary at climatecrisis.net but disappointedly there is not much additional information about the issue. The trailer of the documentary was a failure to me, as it projects exaggerated images of the disastrous moments that is simply like a copycat of one for the day after tomorrow. This is one of the few trailers that I have seen worse than the film itself.
At this same day, a tornado hit London...true or not the observation as per Al Gore?
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I still recall the first exhibition I visited in Paris last year at Villettes, and it was one on global warming. How ironic that I conclude my stay here with the same issue. Old problems always exist.
