Leonardo DiCaprio: Before the Flood (2016)

Leonardo DiCaprio: Before the Flood: Directed by Fisher Stevens. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Ki-moon Ban, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mike Brune. A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems and native communities across the planet.

“A well laid out doc by Leo DiCaprio and Fisher Stevens about the world we are facing today.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFrom the moment the movie opens we get a little glimpse at Leou0026#39;s life as he talks about a Bosh painting that his father hung on the top of his crib, that started his passion for environmental issues. From then on, we realize that his documentary is not just for us it was for him as well.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLeo does not try to make himself out as an environmental expert. This is something I admire greatly about the documentary. A lot of us are being influenced on both sides of the argument about the climate change, and when Leo became the UN Ambassador of peace for this topic, he knew he needed to study up on the process, so he did it with Before the Flood. Leo travels all over the world to discover just how bad the problem actually is and what we can do to stop it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut this doc is all about informing. Leo does not pretend to have the answers by a long shot. One of my fav parts of this movie was a discussion Leo has with an environmentalist from India whose calling out the United States for their part in Global Warming. Leo never defends his home country only comes clean about how realistic or unrealistic it is for America to go clean.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere was this one part of the film where Leo meets with his agricultural guy telling me that America needs to change itu0026#39;s diet. Pretty much telling me that I need to stop buying things like Doritos, which is a small part of a big picture, and by odd coincidence, I just happen to have a big bag of cool ranch in my lap. Granted, it would not hurt my waist line to give up the nachos, but there are other food products that poor Americans like myself would starve if they suddenly disappeared. Proving that this environmental issue for me anyway is not a black and white issue. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLeo created something that does what a documentary is suppose to do. His agenda was to inform you about the climate change and thatu0026#39;s what he does, and he does it without having to make anyone look evil (well not too evil anyway). itu0026#39;s all about laying out the facts and seeing what we can do with that info.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMuch respect.”