A new environmental documentary narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio opened on Friday, August 17, 2007 in New York and Los Angeles.  This entry is based on a review in the New York Times by Manohla Dargis.

It sounds like the documentary is a valuable contribution to raising environmental awareness.  Some excerpts from the review:

    - To judge from all the gas-guzzlers still fouling the air and the plastic bottles clogging the dumps, it appears that the news that we are killing ourselves and the world with our greed and garbage hasn't sunk in.  That's one reason "The 11th Hour," an unnerving, surprisingly affecting documentary about our environmental calamity, is such essential viewing.

    - It has freakily scary environmental images.

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What's missing? -- environmental awareness is a start.  But, if our environmental problems are going to be solved, potential solutions needed to be shared and discussed.  Why not include some?

Here's another excerpt from the review:

    - No matter how well intentioned, political documentaries that present problems without real-life, real-time, real-people solutions -- an 800 number, an address, something -- just add to the noise (pollution), becoming another title on some filmmaker's résumé as well as a temporary salve for the audience's guilt.


If you see it, please add a comment.  I look forward to seeing it......and will let you know when I do.