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Leonardo Di Caprio’s The 11th Hour tells the tale of an Earth on the edge of destruction, and the hope for a more eco-friendly now.
When watching The 11th Hour, two things become obvious: one, Leonardo DiCaprio should avoid movies with icebergs and two, unless you’re the CEO of a very large corporation, there’s not a lot you can do to save the planet.
A little more sophisticated than its power point counterpart (and seriously, who could win an Academy Award for a power point presentation save the man who invented the internet?), The 11th Hour is a documentary about our impact on the environment and the counter impact it will have on us. Featuring some of our more brilliant minds, like Stephen Hawking and Mikhail Gorbachev and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, the film kicks off with a series of monologues designed to instill in us the belief that our planet is bigger and badder than our virus of a species, and unless we stop screwing it up, it will gladly annihilate all of us.
Interesting. Tell me more!
Not only will the planet kill all of humanity in a last ditch survivalist effort, it will kill most living things. Your cat, your goldfish, that irritating woodpecker that wakes you up five minutes before your alarm goes off – all dead. Even the fluffy and adorable environmentalist favorite baby polar bear Knut will face a ghastly death at the hands of an unforgiving mother Earth.
Wow. That sounds bad. How do I stop it?
Are you the head of corporation looking to spend large chunks of money to save the planet? No? How about a real estate mogul in New York City looking to retrofit your buildings so that they’re more environmentally friendly? Not that either, huh? You could grow your own vegetables. You live in an apartment? Oh. Well, don’t be such a big honkin’ consumer.
Seriously, though, the extras on the DVD provide a little more information as to how you can save the planet, but an average person will walk away from The 11th Hour feeling a little lost. The film makes it obvious that there are important things that need tending to, but exactly what can Joe Anybody do to help? The 11th Hour doesn’t really hold the answers, just a lot of shots of an earthy, scruffy Leonardo DiCaprio squinting at the camera, urging us to get involved.
