Rhetorical Analysis
An Inconvenient Truth featuring Al Gore is a film displaying the problems centered around global warming or climate change as it is being referred to now in present time. This film focuses on the viewer’s emotions and plays off that to make have different feelings towards this topic than ever before. The start of the film starts off with Al Gore trying to position himself as a non-politician by bringing in a personal story about his past and making the viewer to be able to have more of a connection with Gore. During the middle of the movie, Gore focuses strongly on the core of the movie which is global warming. He uses fact after fact to display his growing concern for the environment and what is not being done to stop anything from getting any worse. After presenting all these hard facts and background information within his personal life, Gore expresses his emotions with the viewers, through the use of a strong voice and trying to bring to attention to everyone that change needs to be done and it needs to be done by each and every American. After watching the film many different claims can be made about the film but one strong one comes to mind after viewing the film.

The film’s central claim is that as American’s we need to change our ways for it will be worse for the next generation. Gore presents many facts that hit the viewer hard and directly affects the emotions of them. The fact that Gore presents throughout the film make the viewers want to start a change and want their children to have a better life than them, and not have to focus on the falling of planet Earth. This film focuses strongly on emotions and it has a different effect on everyone who watches it.

This movie personally did not affect my emotions as much as it did my fellow classmates. After being surrounded by all the media involved with climate change, I feel that it is something that is being blown out of proportion. I understand that things are changing but I feel that comes with modernization. My fellow classmates seemed to be very moved by the film and started to see a possible different light on the subject. Everyone expresses that we need to change our ways to protect the future, but no one ever follows through with these thoughts. The thought of going green is a great idea but until the day that everyone starts to walk to work instead of driving or uses solar energy to power their homes instead of coal, will be the day that there will be a noticeable change. Al Gore does not do this, so why does he expect me too? Gore is a very passionate man about this topic and that is a great thing to have when you are trying to cause such a movement, but after failing so many times, the American people are starting to lose faith in him, no matter how he presents the information. Overall Gore presents his information in a very effected way but it is not making a lasting impact on the American people and that is one of the main problems surrounded around the climate criss.