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| Fahrenheit 9/11 |
| 06.29.04 (11:11 pm) [edit] |
So I went to see the new Michael Moore film, Fahrenheit 9/11.
Personally, I could not stand to watch his first film, Roger and Me. It made no logical sense to me. Unions priced themselves out of work in his home town and the people in Flint feel entitled to work. ??? Eh? What if GM and other auto manufacturing plants never decided to opne shop there in the first place? Ugh. A frustrating film. Moore was on my hit-list as diametrically opposed voice for a philosophy that ruins free enterprise. And I kept him in my memory.
Along came Bowling for Columbine. OK, so Moore gets my attention...but he pulls a rediculous stunt at the end of the film with the Charlton Heston interview. Moore never informs his audience that Heston is suffering from a disease. He simply embarrasses the NRA advocate in front of a unsuspecting audience in order to play Heston the fool.... unbeknownst to Moore, the trick backfires as his soap box crumbles before him. Later we learn that several of the films 'facts' are indeed false. Why believe him?
So here comes Fahrenheit 9/11. What guts. Going after a sitting president. GM is one thing, the NRA another. But Bush? Actually, both father and son! I enter the theater with my right eye looking to my left, fully prepared for more Moore propaganda. But this time Moore lays down fact after fact after fact. His past method of manipulation appears to be eraticated, instead leaving a lot of information for the audience to assimilate. But some facts are now being questioned. The sound bites add to the drama, slightly altering the documentary from reality to fiction. Is a documentary no longer a documentary when the sound is edited and voice-overs added? Who knows. But for now, know this: from someone who has only voted for 1 democrat since being old enough to vote (Tom Bradley for Governer in 1982), I hope everyone who plans on casting a vote sees this film.
For me, this film makes me ponder what kind of political mess we have gotten ourselves into. Where is the solution to this back-watching favor-minded bipartisan trap we all have to try to squirm away from? And why are the masses not concerned? What bothers me more than the disturbing connections presented in this film is that a majority of the people in this country simply do not care. Disgusting.
Other notes. I thought it was excellent how Moore started the film by showing the Bush cronies 'prepping' for the show thay have been putting on for the blind sheep across the land. He did this by showing disconcerning faces of people once thought to be after the interest and safety of the average Americans BEFORE they were to go 'live' in front of cameras to tell us their 'lines'. And after the film's main ideas are behind us, we see them 'dress down' and pull away from the cameras and microphones...as they move away and slither back to the dark rooms of manipulation and harvesting of fear into the innocent hearts across this once great country.
Moore lost me, though, when he went back to Flint and got on his 'my poor town' soap box. Hey Michael, if you are reading this....we DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU. Simple as that. You made this film personal, and I find it difficult and disturbing to praise the work you did in this film. The job situation in Flint is not the issue nor is it in any way related to the real problem in this country: the facade of an enemy built up by puppetmasters with vested interests. You should have stuck to the main idea that Bush had the plan of the Iraq invasion long before 9/11, and that Bush and his cronies were steadfast in their aim at invading and occupying Iraq.
Moore's film makes you think. You may think his leftist agenda is way off base, or you may think that the new Dictator in the middle east replacing Sadaam Hussain is George W. Bush the armadillo expert. But the bottom line is this: Fahrenheit 9/11 will make you think. You will find yourself talking about it with democrats and republicans (which I am a part of neither) alike. And in these interparty minglings we may all find some common ground for all of us to find relief in: we care about the international ramifications of the actions by our leaders....leaders we are responsible for electing.
Now let's take this election seriously and start talking.
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