An Inconvenient Truth
In the 45+ minute car ride home (I blame the Playboy Jazz Festival, yet another reason I want to stab Hef) a myriad of thoughts streamed through my head.
If I had not seen this movie in a theatre surrounded by LA screenwriters and Ephraim and his wife, I would have cried my eyes out for pretty much the whole thing. Not in a Fahrenheit 9/11-what-a-tragedy-everything-sucks way, but in a more we're-doomed-and-I'm-not-helping way. To clarify and seperate:
1) Everyone should see this movie. The only problem with this thought is that pretty much all of you who read this journal agree with me about the environment and probably don't need this movie to change your mind. It will, however, slap you in the face and wake you up.
2) This movie makes me want to make more movies. This movie is why we're making Take a Bow, this is why I want to make my sex ed doc, this is why I wanted to be a filmmaker in the first place. Be it doc or narrative, I want to make people react the way I'm reacting right now.
3) This movie makes me not want to make another movie ever again. I want to assist in Gore's possible election campaign. I want to find a way to assassinate a certain someone who sucks cockballs. I want to run to Washingont DC and become a lobbyist. I want to become a teacher and influence the future generations of the world. How could I waste my time with such illusions of grandeur thinking that a film I make could change something?
4) This movie makes me want to sell my car and buy a bike. I live and work in Burbank, what do I need a car for? Of course, I am in the film industry, where a car is mandatory, so therefore see #3. So i think to myself of more logical things, like buying a bike and only using my car when 100% necessary. This is a serious consideration that I am making.
5) I am never having children. In, like, 30 years (I am not remembering this correctly), our world population has grown from 2.3 billlion people to 9.3 billion people. I know this isn't right. But it's within this century. In less than 100 years, our population has grown by like a trillion percent. Yes, I exaggerate, but I might as well not be. There is another reason I am not having children, and for that reason, you will have to see this movie.
6) This movie makes me want to change every aspect of my life. Being a logical person, I came to the conclusion that there are some things in life I can change, and others I have no control over. I accepted that, while waiting for the traffic in front of the Hollywood Bowl, and then expanded it into my romantic life. I accept the things I have no control over and will no longer stress over them. My only worry is my own health, but again, if something were to happen with that, it would provide me with the "nothing to lose" scenario. Don't ask, I don't feel like talking about it.
7) This movie convinced me that, if Gore were to run for president in 2008, there is pretty much almost no question that I would vote for him.
8) This movie kind of makes me want to die. It also makes me want to kill people. It also makes me want to save the world. It also makes me feel like we are all so insignificant, fuck it all. It also makes me want to love everyone and feel like every single life is precious and impactful.
It's a good thing my fan's blades are not made of blades because my finger would have been chopped off just now and I would not be very happy. Nor would I not be covered in blood.
It's also a great thing that my apartment does not smell of poo. Which is sarcastic, because it does. But again, I will not let the things I cannot control stress me out.
See this movie.
If I had not seen this movie in a theatre surrounded by LA screenwriters and Ephraim and his wife, I would have cried my eyes out for pretty much the whole thing. Not in a Fahrenheit 9/11-what-a-tragedy-everything-sucks way, but in a more we're-doomed-and-I'm-not-helping way. To clarify and seperate:
1) Everyone should see this movie. The only problem with this thought is that pretty much all of you who read this journal agree with me about the environment and probably don't need this movie to change your mind. It will, however, slap you in the face and wake you up.
2) This movie makes me want to make more movies. This movie is why we're making Take a Bow, this is why I want to make my sex ed doc, this is why I wanted to be a filmmaker in the first place. Be it doc or narrative, I want to make people react the way I'm reacting right now.
3) This movie makes me not want to make another movie ever again. I want to assist in Gore's possible election campaign. I want to find a way to assassinate a certain someone who sucks cockballs. I want to run to Washingont DC and become a lobbyist. I want to become a teacher and influence the future generations of the world. How could I waste my time with such illusions of grandeur thinking that a film I make could change something?
4) This movie makes me want to sell my car and buy a bike. I live and work in Burbank, what do I need a car for? Of course, I am in the film industry, where a car is mandatory, so therefore see #3. So i think to myself of more logical things, like buying a bike and only using my car when 100% necessary. This is a serious consideration that I am making.
5) I am never having children. In, like, 30 years (I am not remembering this correctly), our world population has grown from 2.3 billlion people to 9.3 billion people. I know this isn't right. But it's within this century. In less than 100 years, our population has grown by like a trillion percent. Yes, I exaggerate, but I might as well not be. There is another reason I am not having children, and for that reason, you will have to see this movie.
6) This movie makes me want to change every aspect of my life. Being a logical person, I came to the conclusion that there are some things in life I can change, and others I have no control over. I accepted that, while waiting for the traffic in front of the Hollywood Bowl, and then expanded it into my romantic life. I accept the things I have no control over and will no longer stress over them. My only worry is my own health, but again, if something were to happen with that, it would provide me with the "nothing to lose" scenario. Don't ask, I don't feel like talking about it.
7) This movie convinced me that, if Gore were to run for president in 2008, there is pretty much almost no question that I would vote for him.
8) This movie kind of makes me want to die. It also makes me want to kill people. It also makes me want to save the world. It also makes me feel like we are all so insignificant, fuck it all. It also makes me want to love everyone and feel like every single life is precious and impactful.
It's a good thing my fan's blades are not made of blades because my finger would have been chopped off just now and I would not be very happy. Nor would I not be covered in blood.
It's also a great thing that my apartment does not smell of poo. Which is sarcastic, because it does. But again, I will not let the things I cannot control stress me out.
See this movie.