The documentary was a critical and box office success, winning two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song. The film grossed $24 million in the U.S. and $26 million at the international box office, becoming the tenth highest grossing documentary film to date in the United States.
The film was excellent for research purposes as it is inundated with facts, figures statistics and experts backing up these. However the problem with it is exactly that it is like a powerpoint presentation and however hard Gore tries with animations and graphics it is a bit of a dull watch. The topic and issue IS riveting but the delivery is at best OK at worst a little boring and a bit like being beaten around the head for a couple of hours.
The film highlights the problem of creating factual pieces about the issue they are hard to do. facts and figures and hard to turn into conflict, character and narratives that will hook and engage an audience. This is where I feel a gap in getting the issue out there is frame it around people. An Age of Stupid comes closer with some personal drama but I feel this would be the best device to get the message across in an engaging way.
So overall enjoyable from a facts and figures and research point of view but not really captivating another about what should and could be a captivating issue. I need to consider ways to address this in my own work moving forward or I will possibly make the same mistakes. This is the $1m dollar question and from the conversations that I have been having with my friend at Greenpeace it is an issue he has been trying to address for 10 years in his job. Not an easy one then.... Thinking cap on!
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