Saving Earth - DiCaprio's 'The 11th Hour' Documentary Comment by Larry Ross, August 21, 2007
A great doco by Leo DiCaprio stocked with passion and brainpower illuminating the global environment crisis. Plus all you need to know to save this planet. But a Bush-Cheney war on Iran, would be so big, with so many horrific consequences, that any chance we might have to save our environment, will be blown away by a big new war. Bush and Cheney, their neocons, militarists, Israel, 'End Times' Fundamentalists, controlling the machinery and instruments of a superpower are poised for a pre-emptive strike on Iran. They are a huge collection of powerful forces. Few Americans realise what's going on and what's coming. So it is a collection of colossal problems. It is true that destruction of our environment may destroy humanity. But unless we get rid of the deluded mad Administration in power before their wars destroy us first, our environmental concerns and actions will be of no use. Passion and brainpower for environmental problems must be matched with passion, brainpower and resources to deal with the immediate problem of Bush and his Administration and what they may do to the world in the next few months.
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Leo DiCaprio Takes Up Where Al Gore Left Off in New '11th Hour' Environmental Documentary by Don Hazen, July 22, 2007
DiCaprio's 11th Hour is a powerful documentary that makes the case that our way of life is totally at odds with the sustainability of our planet. But the film needs the Hollywood star to draw a lot more publicity to it. Three-time Academy Award-nominated movie star Leonardo DiCaprio and his filmmaking partners, Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen, have done us a great favor. They have assembled an incredible array of passion and brainpower in their stirring documentary, The 11th Hour , to teach us just about every thing we need to know about the fate of planet Earth -- how bad things are, and what we can do to reverse the effects of humanity's rapid devastation of this planet. The filmmakers have culled 90 minutes of brilliance from approximately 150 hours of interviews of the best of the best -- the rock stars of ecology, public policy, social critique and visionary philosophy. They have done a magnificent job. The 11th Hour is a first-class overview of the technology, the politics, the consequences of corporate and consumer behavior, and the aspirations and means to fix the mess we humans have created. As DiCaprio says, "We wanted to present the experts and have them carry the narrative of the film ..." which they do extraordinarily well. The film is great-looking as well, as the interviews are interspersed with scenes of contrasting beauty and environmental victimization -- dizzying montages, barren forests, beautiful seas, mudslides and clubbed baby seals, all set against a vast array of consumer images. Are we at the 11th hour? |
