Coty Spengler
October 18, 2010
Project 4: Rhetorical Analysis
In my opinion, Al Gore knows what he is talking about. I’m not too keen on Al Gore, himself, but he had a lot of legitimate information and presented his points very strongly. In this movie Gore explains and educates his viewers on the negative effects that come with global warming. Gore explains his travels around the world viewing all the adverse effects on the world and the ozone. Gore is a very persuasive character and is very good at explaining his points in great depth. I agree with most of what he says and his way of putting it in the movie, other than the part where he talks about his personal live. I feel like he is trying to put us in the sympathy mood, but in my opinion, he is just making himself look dumb. The intended emotional appear for this movie is to make the views feel bad and understand that global warming is a major problem that needs to be solved. The films actual effect on me was that it was a little long and drawn out and it could have been a little bit more to the point rather than putting the same information in different ways to try to make them agree with him in all possibility.
Al Gore is a very inspirational man. The joke he makes at the beginning about being the former next president got me kind of intrigued about the actually movie. As the movie went on I decided that he was explaining the same information over and over again. I think he could have a little more to the point and explained his points in a little more interesting way and kept me interested. I did not like how he involved his personal live with the movie. I think if he would have stayed on topic and kept to the story he would have made his point a little more logistical. With involving his personal live he lost credibility because this is not a good way to put people in the mood to learn about global warming. I think global warming is a problem in the world, but I think he only brought up the points that went against it. I do think there is a problem arising, but I think he is being a little to dramatic with this movie. If I knew more about the negative effects this was having on the world I would be a little more understanding and actually intrigued with this movie.
If I watched this movie again I may understand more because I would catch things that I did not catch when I watched it the first time. I will give it to him because he educated in me in what “supposedly” happening. I still have doubts if all Gore’s points were true he could have been making some of it up for all I know. In all in all Gore could have made this movie better with more statistics with reliable sources and more background story.
