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Fahrenheit 9/11
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Truth Hurts.
Shame on Disney for blocking Miramax from releasing Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," the explosive documentary that exposes the Bush White House as a lot of blundering fools that goofed up before, during, and after the World Trade Centre attacks. By caving into pressure from the right, Disney not only failed to honor Moore's right to free speech, but it also let a blockbuster smash slide through its fingers. Is Moore an opportunist for deliberately releasing this movie during an election year? Probably. Is it biased? Only a fool would say "no." But regardless of what side of the political fence you're on, "Fahrenheit 9/11" will arouse fierce debate, and its images will alarm, disturb and unnerve. Not to mention that the movie is funny as hell. The opening sequence outlines, with strong conviction, how the 2000 election was manipulated to portray Bush as the winner. Other interesting clips are a ditzy Britney Spears blindly endorsing the president, evidence that links the Bush family to the bin Ladens, footage of Bush reading nursery rhymes to grade school kids for SEVEN MINUTES after he got word of the 9/11 attacks, as well as Moore vainly trying to persuade congressmen to get their children to enlist in the very Iraq war they endorsed. But the heart of "Fahrenheit 9/11" rests in Lila Lipscomb. Lila is a working class mother in Flint, MI, and is aggressively supportive of the war in Iraq until she learns that her son, a soldier, was killed in battle. Witnessing her anguish onscreen (and in front of the White House where she vents her frustration and mourns the loss of her son) is truly heartbreaking. Moore rocked several comfort zones during his infamous 2003 Oscar speech for his previous documentary "Bowling for Columbine," and "Fahrenheit" will no doubt do more of the same. Good for him. Moore's truth may hurt, but Bush's lies kill.
Definitely A Must-See Movie For The Summer!
This film is a brilliantly-contrived and choreographed emotional roller coaster ride that incites a quite palpable resulting attitude of disgust, dismay, and disdain on the of the viewer. Mr. Moore manipulates the images, voice-overs and antics to both amuse and outrage us all at once, in an obviously outrageously satirical (and sometimes hysterical) look at the war in Iraq and the people who engineered us into invading that country, at terrible cost to ordinary American men and women. In essence that is the simple message of this pseudo-documentary; that simple, trusting and basically honorable young and patriotic Americans are being badly abused and misled by an administration and a government out of control, a government which, in Mr. Moore's view of the world, serves its people up to slaughter without worry and care. After all, it is not, as he so comically and memorably demonstrates, the sons and daughters of the governing elite who serve and die in God-forsaken places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus, in one chaotic series of vignettes, Moore corners unsuspecting Congressmen and makes a pitch to have them volunteer their kids as potential cannon-fodder for Iraq. Needless to say, the point is well taken, as only one current member of Congress has a son stationed in harm's way in Iraq. He counter-poses such banal images with those of battle casualties and struggling working class mothers crying over their lost sons after the fact. One must hasten to acknowledge that in fact, Michael Moore makes no pretense in the film of attempting to be balanced or fair; on the contrary, he is puzzled by the suggestion that he do so. After all, as he says, the opinions coming from the environs of the Oval Office have hardly been balanced or fair. And while one may argue that he has sometimes played fast and loose with the sequences of events, or the connections between various elements tied together in the movie, there are few outright falsehoods one can point to as an example of downright misrepresentation. He also quite cleverly puts the lie to the idea that protest or argument is somehow unpatriotic. This places an enormous burden on those who would argue one must remain silent in solidarity with the troops as a show of respect for their sacrifice. Yet it is hard to argue with Moore's logic that anyone who really cares about the welfare of the troops would take care not to misuse them or continue to place them needlessly or carelessly in harms' way. As James Bovard contends in his new book, suggesting, as Mr. Bush does continually, that by fighting the terrorists in Iraq we will avoid fighting them here, is at best an almost criminally naïve notion, and at worst, a cynical and murderous misrepresentation of what is going down in Iraq. We are not becessarily there to preserve their freedom or ours, argues Mr. Moore, and any suggestion that such is the case will have a hard time explaining events that now transpire on an almost daily basis. Moore's intent was to ratchet up debate on the policies and practices and rationale of the neo-conservative regime current in power, and to suggest that perhaps Americans begin to question it and its motives much more closely. Thus, despite it dramatic excesses or its willingness to sometimes take liberties in connecting things which may or may not indeed be so tied, I believe in creating public controversy and stirring public debate the movie will be a stunning success, and that it may well lead to having some measurable resulting political impact on the election in the fall. Enjoy!
 Don't believe everything you hear!
This is an extraordinary, powerful, and well thought out movie. It is harsh on the Bush administration and their failures. But more importantly... it is ALL documented. You will hear a ton of BAD things about this movie from the extremely political people out there. Facts are hard to dispute, so a spin campaign is in full force. Michael Moore anticipated this and had complete documentation of his sources available for your own research. Go to http://www.michaelmoore.com/warroom/f911notes / and check the sources to verify the accuracy of this movie before you listen to any of the negative propaganda against it. So I emplore you, DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR... check it out for yourself and be intelligently informed. This movie is a MASTERPIECE!!!
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