An Inconvenient Sequel

‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ Bumped to Incorporate Paris Accord
‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ Bumped to Incorporate Paris Accord
‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ Bumped to Incorporate Paris Accord
Between its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and its theatrical release last month, Laura Poitras’ WikiLeaks documentary Risk transformed into a different film. In that interim year, her subject Julian Assange nabbed quite a few headlines as he stuck his thumb in the 2016 Presidential election, and Poitras rightly believed she’d have to recut the film to account for all the new developments. And now, in a similar situation, another festival-feted nonfiction film has been made to rewrite its own story as real-world news breaks.
‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ Trailer Targets Trump, Reminds Us Al Gore Was Right All Along
‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ Trailer Targets Trump, Reminds Us Al Gore Was Right All Along
‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ Trailer Targets Trump, Reminds Us Al Gore Was Right All Along
In 2006, environmental conservation advocate and former Presidential candidate Al Gore unveiled his documentary An Inconvenient Truth, a call to action regarding the urgent dangers of global warming. And that was that — viewers recognized the importance of preserving the planet, green technology completely supplanted carbon-emitting fossil fuels, and Earth got back on track towards a clean bill of health. Ha! No, the opposite is true, and we’re all going to get swallowed up by a great deluge sent by Mother Gaia. As our recently inducted Commander-in-Chief prepares to gut the EPA like a trout (and enjoy that analogy, because at this rate, our grandchildren will not know what a trout is), things are getting worse than ever, and it falls to Gore once again to remind us that we are literally killing ourselves.