With the troubling vision of the end of the world as a constant reminder it is not clear whether mankind can do enough or will unite behind this issue to do enough in time to stop the damage done to our only home. The release of Leonardo DiCaprio’s new film ‘Before the Flood’, near the end of a US election in which climate change has gone all but unmentioned, is to be celebrated. In Fisher Stevens utterly compelling 2016 documentary, Before The Flood, Leonardo Di Caprio the films narrator says that when you start a conversation. ![]() DiCaprio travels the world meeting with various environmental activists (while he is seen in various stages of grizzly beard growth for his role in The Revenant). Before the Flood ends on a sublime note, coming full circle back to an arresting piece of artwork (above) The Garden of Earthly Delights by Heironymous Bosch in 1485 that hung above Leo’s crib. Perhaps there are too many hard truths, sacrifices, and prescribed changes that need to happen especially in America's comfortable consumerism for this film to really make an impact. ![]() Unfortunately this documentary is not as compelling or as visually iconic as An Inconvenient Truth. Leo talked about how making The Revenant, set in a time when humanity was working to tame, to civilize, to bring a new natural wilderness under control, made him recognize the ways that the environment could fight back. The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. It was a promising concept and was aiming to be the next An Inconvenient Truth. Messenger of Peace Leonardo DiCaprio, Before the Flood presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes occurring around the world due to climate change, as. Before the Flood and CCOI: In the documentary film Before the Flood, UN Messenger of Peace Leonardo DiCaprio travels to five continents and the Arctic to uncover the reality of climate change. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. I read an article in Rolling Stone magazine interviewing Leonardo DiCaprio and Fisher Stevens before this doc was released.
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