Leonardo DiCaprio’s new documentary, “Before the Flood,” has been on YouTube for just a few days, but it already has millions of views.
The documentary is a moving, uncompromising look at climate change, produced by both DiCaprio and National Geographic. In the documentary, DiCaprio, who’s been an outspoken supporter of climate action, gives us a refreshing, very frank look at what the climate change situation is really like.
DiCaprio doesn’t pull his punches on the big stuff, but what actually fascinated me were some of the smaller, simpler, more emotional moments.
“Before the Flood” is an hour and a half long, and I can’t recommend watching it enough, mostly because of these five affecting, emotional moments that stayed with me once the movie was done.
1. The quiet moment when a researcher admits how much the natural world means to him.
Near the beginning of the film, DiCaprio goes up to Greenland to check out the glaciers and ice sheets. You’ll get to see amazing footage of crevasses and ice floes, and he also does some really cool interviews, including one with a local hunter.
But one moment in this scene stands out: DiCaprio is standing with Dr. Enric Sala, a marine ecologist and National Geographic explorer, watching some narwhals come up before them. You can actually hear the whales click and purr.
Then, just at the end, Sala turns to DiCaprio and says, unbidden, “You know, I don’t want to be on a planet without these animals.”
2. The moment in Beijing that made me think about my own family.
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