The 11th Hour, Channel 4
The Vicar of Baghdad, STV
Oh, look, it's Leonardo di Caprio! And I think he's standing in front of the place where Danny Zuko had the drag race in Grease.
He looks very sincere, does Leo, and he's saying something too ... something about, um, the Earth or something. He's concerned that the icebergs are melting – which is ironic, because he was in Titanic, but he obviously doesn't hold a grudge! It's funny how he never looks any older, though, isn't it?
And thus, this is why we're screwing up the actual planet we live on. We don't mean to, we know we shouldn't, but we get distracted by celebrities and trivia and kind of absent-mindedly gloss over how we're choking ourselves to extinction. The 11th Hour, di Caprio's own version of Al Gore's film, did not really contain any startling new information that we haven't seen before a hundred times.
Everyone – even George Bush these days – knows our massive consumption isn't sustainable and that reusing supermarket bags is only going to make a dent in the problem. Yet since we don't seem to be really taking it in, there's no point complaining that it's old news.
To read the rest of this review, click here: The Scotsman.
Monday, 26 May 2008
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2 comments:
11th Hour does an admirable job tracing back our environmental woes to our individual habits; it makes me wonder if making this movie inspired Leo to live an environmentally aware lifestyle
I did a little research for this review and found out that he actually set up an environmental foundation years before the film, which seems to do very good work: http://www.leonardodicaprio.org/
He does create some wasteful rubbish, though - did you see that movie The Beach?
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