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The 11th Hour

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Dir: Nadia Conners, Leila Conners Petersen. Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio

 

Description: Leonardo DiCaprio narrates this environmental documentary directed by Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen, which underlines the dire predicament facing planet earth and possible solutions to the crisis. The film interviews experts, statesmen and commentators including Stephen Hawking, Mikhail Gorbachev and Nobel Prize-winning activist Dr Wangari Maathai, who share the same grave concerns about global warning and our over reliance on fossil fuels.

Country: US. 2007. 92mins
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DiCaprio does climate change

By Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard  20.03.08
 
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Man with a message: Leonardo DiCaprio's narration is unlikely to change many minds

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Those who have reached the end of the line as far as doom-laden documentaries about global warming are concerned are unlikely to have their minds changed by Leonardo DiCaprio and his narration of this polished but essentially rather dull follow-up to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

His earnest words to camera are supplemented by a flood of images that prove his points, including tidal waves, Hurricane Katrina, a bloody slaughterhouse and rush-hour traffic in Los Angeles.

The general thesis is that we are idiots to destroy our world and ourselves. But that there might just still be time.

Other talking heads include Stephen Hawking, Mikhail Gorbachev and various heads of environmental organisations.

They agree that if man was created to dominate the earth, the result is not quite what the Bible meant.

It is all very credible as, if it's not too late, are the proposed solutions, such as eco-friendly structures and renewable energy sources. But this is not exciting stuff - just a bit second-hand and depressing.

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