Al Gore like you’ve never seen him
July 22nd, 2006
Here is a 13-minute documentary about Al Gore made by Spike Jonze. He traveled to Carthage, Tennessee and spent the day with Gore and his family. The result is really heart-warming. Al Gore seems like a heck of a guy.
[...] like the rest of the country, I didn’t really know who Al Gore was. So I suggested that what I could offer would be to simply go down and get my impressions of Al Gore. And I just went with my video camera by myself, and just tried to gather, in a small unobtrusive way, a sort of video portrait- a day in the life, just to get to know who he is.
[...] I think that Al and Tipper have to be good people and good parents to have created a family that’s so solid. They look out for each other, and you can feel it. I mean, it’s really obvious when you’re around a dysfunctional family and it’s also obvious when you’re around a really functional family.