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Before The Flood By Fisher Stevens

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Kaylee Ross
Mr. Jonathan Miller
English 10B
27 January 2017

In the documentary, Before the Flood, by Fisher Stevens, Leonardo DiCaprio …show more content…

In the film, Leonardo DiCaprio visits many different places all over the world and talks to many different people about how climate change is affecting their specific area of where they live. This film is very purposeful in the way it presents to you the topic of climate change and the tone it uses to come across about it. The context used in the movie very much inspires the purpose and the evidence they used in this documentary was also drawn to full effect through the ways the film

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