Al Gore Takes Center Stage on Sundance’s Opening Night – and So Does Donald Trump
Donald Trump was thousands of miles away getting ready for a big party, but his presence hung heavy over the Eccles Theatre on opening night of the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday evening in Park City, Utah.
Truth to Power, the sequel to Davis Guggenheim’s 2006 Oscar-winning film about Gore’s crusade, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
The new film, directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, is focused on the efforts Gore has made in the last decade in the face of political opposition, right-wing media mockery and resistance from developing countries like India.
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[...] the voice of Donald Trump pops up repeatedly, mocking President Obama for saying that climate change is the biggest problem facing America and threatening to throw out accords negotiated by previous administrations.
The film visits Gore at home in Tennessee and goes with him to a shrinking glacier in Greenland, flooded streets in Miami and, most crucially, the 2015 UN climate summit, where he was instrumental in striking a deal with a recalcitrant India.
Maybe it won’t persuade the denizens of the alt-right, or even some hostile Republican congressmen, but it’s hard to imagine that most viewers inclined to see the film (and maybe a few dragged to see it against their will) will come out thinking of the man as a hero of sorts.
“Over the years, there have been a lot of people who have been climate-change deniers and changed their minds,” said Gore, who met with Trump shortly after the election but refused to talk about their conversation.
