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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - #262 - Al Gore Lives On My Street

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/55227370 Al Gore changed the way millions of people think about the climate crisis, but a full 15 years after the intended wake-up call of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (2006), the crisis is worse than ever. We look back at the documentary and analyze why Gore's brand of neoliberal environmentalism hasn't worked. PLUS: the Canadian election, The Sopranos, and tales of small-town political corruption.

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0:00.0

Well, I wanted to do this movie for the obvious reason of the recent UN climate report.

0:05.5

That is such a boring reason to want to do this.

0:07.6

Hang on.

0:08.1

I just wanted to do it because it's our friend and friend and comrade Al Gore.

0:12.5

Hang on.

0:13.1

That was only the first thought.

0:14.8

Then I started thinking about it more.

0:16.1

And I started to look back on myself being a 17-year-old going to see this movie in a theater, going to the Cumberland

0:22.0

Theater, Rest in Power, downtown, surrounded by old people, you know, very sophisticated,

0:27.5

seeing a documentary film, seeing a documentary film about something really important, which was climate

0:31.6

change, starring the man who should have been president, Al Gore. And, you know, much of the

0:36.6

movie was compelling. I could have done with fewer shots of Al Gore. And, you know, much of the movie was compelling.

0:38.5

I could have done with fewer shots of Al Gore wandering around the airport, you know,

0:42.9

looking mournfully outside various windows, you know.

0:46.3

There's some stuff, which I'm sure was in keeping with, like, the documentary aesthetics

0:50.3

at the time.

0:51.2

Oh, like the cartoon segment.

0:52.9

Yeah, well, that kind of stuff.

0:54.1

But then just like

0:55.0

kind of the shots you were talking about where it'll be a picture of him like from behind, like

0:58.7

looking mournfully out of a window. And now it honestly just looks like Tim and Eric or something.

1:03.7

Yeah. So, you know, at the time I recognized this, this is a flawed movie. But I was certainly

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