Every audience in every theatre will inevitably react to a film in a quasi-unique way. After viewing Fahrenheit 9/11 in a St. Catharines Cineplex Odeon theatre last night (which was PACKED) a few interesting things caught my attention. First of all, as the credits started to roll, the audience broke into a huge ovation. The only other time I’d seen something like that was at the end of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Even those who stayed sitting in their seat, stunned by everything they had just witnessed were almost involuntarily clapping their hands‚Ķ like their bodies just had to react to what they just witnessed.
The second interesting thing I noticed as we were all walking out. Everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE, was talking about the film. Complete strangers stopped in the foyer to discuss the film and they’re own personal takes on it. No one was talking about where to go for drinks, or who was going to drive the babysitter home, or what they want to do now.
Regardless of what people think of Moore, or what political party they support, or what their political views are, Fahrenheit 9/11 is a “film” (see my article coming in the next few days where I ask if documentaries should actually be considered movies at all) that WILL make you talk about it, it will make you think, and one way or the other, it will instantly slightly increase your interest in political future of the United States. I’m going to go eat some cereal now.
I feel that this movie (it was in the cinema, therefore is a movie) brought to light so many things that were wrong with the bush administration. However, the main thing that struck me, was how basically the Bush family, and bush administration seems to be out to make money. Everything they do earns them a few extra million dollors, it is incredible, people are dieying, people are protesting, people are crying, and all the while, millions of dollors are going to bush and his freinds.
A president should take office because he feels that he wants to run the country, and that he wants to run it under his ideals. But it seems for Bush, that running the country is not his priority. His main priority is how he can run the country in such a way that will get him alot of money.
Thus, i finish with this, perhaps one of the oldest sayings is true : – “Money is the root of all evil”.
I think Moore is one of the most important figures on the political scene. He is a humourous and effective populist agitator. But as stated by BBC online correspondent Ian Youngs, his film must be watched with a critical eye. He utilizes dramatic images and an unyielding commentary track that basically concludes Bush is inept, deceitful, and failing in the war on terrorism. But he does not put forward a fair picture of the president and his policies. There is no discussion or examination of facts. Nonetheless, it is worth seeing and thinking about, regardless of your political views.
Written like a truly invalid argument. Good work. Your opinion is based upon whatever you’d like. Good and fine. However, to truly be considered reasonable and intelligent, you have to avoid some classic flaws. What you’ve written is called an ‘ad hominem’ (meaning ‘at the man’) argument, a common error in which you attack the person (in this case, making assumptions about a man’s physical appearance and possible body odour) instead of their position.
If you disagree with Mr. Moore, feel free. Look for problems in his position and counter with questions for him. But to just mock him and comment only on clearly subjective feelings (I, on the other hand, have never thought he was rude, cowardly or irrelevant) is immature and silly. You’ve gotta step with something better than that because what you’ve brought is empty.
Michael Moore: On Target or The Target?
Michael Moore. The French love him, which is to say he’s mainly irrelevant. I suppose a guy who’s rude, cowardly, hairy, and doesn’t use deodorant would appeal to the French though. On a more serious note, Michael Moore is a threat to the American public but not because of his books or movies. They are entertaining and that’s why we go to the movies. However, like an Oliver Stone movie, one mans take on history for entertainment value should be viewed as just that – entertainment. No, Michael Moore is dangerous to Americans because someone who doesn’t get the joke is likely to make a big fat target of the big fat jokester and send him an early Oscar in the shape of a rifle slug. It would would be unfortunate if an innocent bystander were the recipient by mistake. Therefore, watch his movies (or for more laughs go see Dodgeball), but if he comes to your town on a speaking gig it may be prudent to keep your head down