Review of Before the Flood (2016) by Byron B — 12 Jul 2018
I read an article in Rolling Stone magazine interviewing Leonardo DiCaprio and Fisher Stevens before this doc was released. It was a promising concept and was aiming to be the next An Inconvenient Truth.
Leo talked about how making The Revenant, set in a time when humanity was working to tame, to civilize, to bring a new natural wilderness under control, made him recognize the ways that the environment could fight back.
Unfortunately this documentary is not as compelling or as visually iconic as An Inconvenient Truth. Perhaps there are too many hard truths, sacrifices, and prescribed changes that need to happen especially in America's comfortable consumerism for this film to really make an impact.
DiCaprio travels the world meeting with various environmental activists (while he is seen in various stages of grizzly beard growth for his role in The Revenant). With the troubling vision of the end of the world as a constant reminder it is not clear whether mankind can do enough or will unite behind this issue to do enough in time to stop the damage done to our only home.
.. this pale blue dot.
This review of Before the Flood (2016) was written by Byron B on 12 Jul 2018.
Before the Flood has generally received positive reviews.
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