Inconvenient Truth

Introduction

Everything is bad for our planet, this is what Al Gore tries to make us understand in the film An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim. This documentary is an authentic theater. At the beginning of the documentary, Al Gore made a royal entry similar to that of a prince or a hero. Global warming has served as a pretext to organize this new form of propaganda. The paradigm of good and bad is very clear.

The main purpose of this documentary would be convince the world to engage in the fight against global climate in order to save our planet. The political aspect of this film appears several times and stands out from the dominant theme. We will try to demonstrate how this documentary can be considered a political propaganda film of 96 minutes.

Background

First of all, Al Gore is setting up its ethos: "I Used to Be the Next President of the United States of America.” Already, Al Gore, it was supposed to be president, but there was a miscarriage somewhere ... The structure presents a visual story-in-the-story. The PowerPoint presentation on global warming disappears several times to make way for the capsules Al Gore's life. The voice of Al Gore takes a dramatic tone when scenes from his life are presented. If the trauma he experienced were mentioned in his a previous presidential campaign as much detail as in this film, it seemed too inappropriate, too personal and emotional (and would be the case for any candidate), but in this context, it sounds elicit sympathy from the spectators. The audience that we see in this film is worthy of an Oprah show (Bars, 159).

Ethos / Pathos

He builds a positive ethos itself, and at the same time, he built a negative ethos of his opponent George Bush. It plays heavily on pathos, rhetoric ordinarily intended to influence voters. He plays more on the emotional aspects on a program rather than any other roles. It is true that suggests solutions, but it does not say what he will do himself - Gore is considered an energy-intensive. In setting the stage of political power, there is the promotion of the ethos and the emphasis is on pathos, technical theater and closes the show (just what he was doing). We must distinguish between what is and what information which fell within the communication. There was information, but communication dominated. We note already that ...