I was intrigued by inside job merely because it was so
relevant to me.
My father, he works in finance, he worked for Wachovia and
closely worked with AIG. After the stock
market plummeted, our lives flipped inside out. He was gone from 6 to 11
instead of 9 to 5. Stress filled our
whole household. That is where I think Inside
Job went wrong; the struggle in the office was evident, but the larger
struggle in the homes seemed to be lost.
I feel like although my life was so changed by the crash, I didn’t
relate very well to the documentary. Ferguson was more informative than
actually trying to evoke pathos, which I thought was oddly cold-hearted. Although it was lacking in emotion I did
think Ferguson excelled at displaying the panic and corruptness of the economy
and financial world. It seemed just disconnected from the average person to me.
When I first began the documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, my opinion was already set in stone. I heard from my teachers in high school that, yes, the Earth was warming, but apparently so were the other planets. I remember specifically, my 9th grade science teacher saying; "How can it be our faults, is it our fault that Mars is getting hotter also?" I believed it. It was a valid case. If the other planets were actually increasing in temperature, then blame could be pushed not onto us and our release of gases destroying our atmosphere, but onto the sun. Being the person that I am, after Al Gore, a politician that i respect, spoke of the radical warming on our planet back in 2006. I doubted my teachers and researched warming of the other planets.
This is what I found:
Turns out scientists know NOTHING factual about the warming of Mars or any other planet. Global warming most likely is caused by what Al Gore spoke of in An Inconvenient Truth. Which is us, humans are polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. We are essentially destroying ourselves. And probably denying that we are doing so, just like I did until this documentary. I don't find myself ignorant, just extremely misinformed, like any other student that will go through my high schools science department.
Its truly disappointing, because what can we - as humans- do if most of the population doesn't even know the causation of this extreme warming other than its happening? We can do as much as my 9th grade teacher has taught me, which is nothing. Davis Guggenheim, the Director, brought this issue to life not only to entertain but to raise awareness in hopes that once we know what we are doing to our planet, maybe we will take action. I know I am more empowered to do good for the world because of it.
