I love documentary-style movies, always have. I anticipated that this movie would be good and it was. I should say that anyone who can see it should go see it, although I'm not sure whether it's playing in movie theatres outside the USA because the main motive of this movie seemed to be to rouse "Americans". I've been roused; you don't need to be American to be roused by this movie.

Al Gore narrates through the entirety of the film - he and his trusty PowerBook (which gets a lot of screen time incidentally, and I, as a Mac aficionado, took due notice). The movie is somewhat akin to watching a recorded Keynote presentation with detours into little stories told by Al Gore every now and then. I don't have much to say because the movie says a lot that I did not have good memory enough to remember and repeat, except that, if the data he presented is fact, then we have much cause to be alarmed. No, I mean really. If the data he presented is fact, then the Earth will see dramatic changes in climate during our lifetime.

Of course, that is a conditional statement starting with an "if" but I believe that the statement in the conditional is actually true and the information he presented is indeed fact. I think so because I cannot imagine why somebody would go to such lengths to present incorrect data, how presenting incorrect data in a movie is profitting said person and that if the data in question is incorrect, how the person presenting it can assume that he won't be caught when he presents it to millions. These reasonable questions lead me to believe that the information is indeed fact and, as someone once said, "We are in deep shit."

"An Intellectual Truth" is not just a good film, it is a necessary film. You need to see it. In fact, I think that if Al Gore really believes in the fact that the Earth is more important than bars of gold, he should actually release this movie freely over the Internet through BitTorrent and all other possible channels. Global Warming, the issue under discussion, sounds unimpressive because it is not sudden like wars or bomb blasts, but it is in fact more important than all the wars we've ever had.

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