Critics of Al Gore’s global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth derided it as more like a videotaped lecture than an actual film, but what it lacked in cinematic style, it made up for in earnest scholarship. As if providing the overbearing yang to Gore’s overly refined yin, The 11th Hour arrives as Inconvenient Truth’s evil twin: a film that’s so restlessly, numbingly cinematic that it can barely communicate its message. Viewers will disagree over the appropriateness of the movie’s fear-mongering about the incipient environmental doomsday, based on their political predispositions, but either way, 11th Hour isn’t likely to win any new converts with its oppressive style and dizzying barrage of fuzzy factoids.
Produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, Hour treads too much of the same ground paved by Al Gore’s global warming film, which won last year’s Oscar for best documentary. You’ll find some of the same charts, data and conclusions.
Though The 11th Hour presents a depressing laundry list of statistics, it’s not all doom and gloom. The film also highlights humanity’s genius and ability to continue growth and innovation with systems that sustain rather than degrade. In an effort to take An Inconvenient Truth to the next level and create action out of awareness, The 11th Hour provides a layman’s guide to existing resolutions and developing proposals. The “solution summary” covers all the bases from sustainable design to renewable energy to biomimicry. Such an overview of options is positive — a welcomed change from the reprimanding voice so often associated with the environmental movement.
Director: Nadia Conners, Leila Conners Petersen
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Thom Hartmann
Genre : Documentary.
Release date : August 17, 2007
Rating : 8/10
Official website : http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/
Poster : http://movies-update.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/the_11th_hour-202×300.jpg
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