In his own words, he "used to be the next president of the United States" - an introduction which had the audience of environmental activists and policy wonks chuckling in our polite British way, even as the audience on screen - for the film is based on public lectures which Gore has been giving for the last few years in the US and elsewhere - whooped and hollered. Who is Al Gore? Is he Woody Allen, cinema auteur and self-deprecating comic? Is he Richard Feynman, science lecturer extraordinaire? Or is he the Bogeyman, scaring credulous audiences into a rapture of guilt and worry?Īll these comparisons came to mind as I watched a preview of Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth in a cinema buried in the bowels of London's West End last month. An Inconvenient Truth sees Al Gore emerge as a superb communicator
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