Thursday, July 01, 2004

A motion picture must be worth a million something something.

My official review of Fahrenheit 9/11(read at your own risk, there will be some spoilers):

It's a left-skewed, politically motivated movie that is unwavering in its passion to remove GWB from his current position of power. And I loved every minute of it. Although not the biggest fan of Michael Moore, I have to admit he did an amazing job of putting this movie together. Although I can't say that I liked it(it isn't a movie you like, it's a movie you feel), I can say that it made me feel things very strongly, if that makes sense. It is an emotional movie that keeps you jumping from anger to despair to fear to disdain. I would be surprised if anyone, regardless of party affiliation, could stomach voting for Bush in November after seeing this movie.

It's not just a Bush-bashing movie. It also scolds the American public for its apathy, rails the media for spoon-feeding us, and takes a couple swipes at the democratic party leaders, for viewing the 2000 election through the rosiest of rose colored glasses. Not to mention the interview with a senator who asks "do you know how time-consuming reading each and every bill we pass would be." I paraphrase, of course, but the point is that our elected officials are passing laws that affect you and me without reading what they are. That's just plain fucking ignorant.

Perhaps the most emotionally wrenching episode is of a mother from Flint, who has several family members in the military, who is rather gung-ho and patriotic to the point of believing that we should do whatever our commander-in-chief says, who then loses her son, and can't understand why she lost her son for oil, who cries when she reads letters from him, who walked to the White House and almost fell to her knees in grief. It's hard to watch, even harder to realize that what you're seeing wasn't written and conceived. It happened, and it's still happening.

My recommendation is that each and every American citizen should see this movie, even if you believe that it is leftist bullshit. After all, we've been putting up with enough from the right for the last 3 years- maybe it's time someone gave us another view.

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