In fact it shows just how small the consumer base for the vehicle really was. It comes off as little more than a stunt to try to grab the attention of the viewer. This is not the only time that the documentary relies on imagery to pull on the emotions of the viewer, in fact this is the backbone of the documentary. As the funeral scene ends, the audience is shown a montage of clips each showing pollution. A scene of a busy highway, a smoggy metropolis city scape, a tail pipe emitting copious amounts of smoke. The scenes are very effective and really grab the viewer. While the montage is going, a authoritative sounding announcer goes through many different facts about smoke and pollution levels in California's most densely populated regions, all the while building the association in the viewers minds that it is a direct result of cars and not acknowledging that there are many other sources of smog and pollution. One final scene that relied on imagery to support the claims of the filmmakers was towards the end of the film. Former EV1 owners follow truck loads of the cars after they have been confiscated by GM. The filmmakers then follow the truck in a helicopter and witness the cars being demolished. At this point they show commentary from the filmmaker about what a tragedy it is, and then inter-splice the reactions of EV1 owners while showing crushed EV1s over and over. To the non-skeptical viewer who has taken in all of the filmmakers opinions this final blow is emotionally angering. It is portrayed as if the carmakers are destroying the "future " and that now because of these limited run cars being destroyed there is no hope.
There were many facts that were simply misconstrued or left out in order to create a bulletproof argument for the filmmakers to make. One of the most outrageous claims is made by one of the interviewee's, Chelsea Sexton a former Saturn distributor that was assigned to work with the EV1.
