Fahrenheit 9/11' is the most effecting cinematic experience of the year. It is super-liberal, far-left, borderline propaganda at times, from an exuberant film maker and personality who himself has some hypocrisies to answer for but the film's quality cannot be overlooked.
The opening 10/15 minutes sums up the basis of Moore's book Stupid White Men' in which he claims Bush rigged the 2000 election in which he gained power, the way in which the election is shown and the protests in the Senate are played out is genuinely upsetting and shows his side of an argument he has mastered arguing for the past four years at its most passionate.
That is the best way to look at the film, not to judge it on right or wrong or constantly considering the other side of the argument, save that for afterwards at the pub with the usual alcohol-inspired debate team. This is Michael Moore's argument and rarely has a side to a debate been so fantastically put across.
Moore masters the medium of cinema on his second major outing after 2002's Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine'. After a wonderful title sequence Bush is ridiculed, his every move as a president quashed from all sides, Moore brings out all the evidence to prove the incompetence of Bush Jr. but the film hits its most impactual moment when the title-date arrives. The screen goes entirely black and all we are left with is the haunting sounds of planes crashing into the Twin Towers and the chaos that ensues a perfect example of what you can't see being far worse than what you can, the image is not only unnecessary as we have seen them so much we are almost de-sensitised but it is far more impacting without it.
Moore brings out the tear jerker moments again when he shows a staunch war supporter proud of her son in Iraq before the war then her change of feeling after he has died. Mixed in with this are moments where the audience collectively shakes their head in disbelief as the web of deceit and corruption inside American is shown for all to see alongside moments of hilarity as Moore shows Bush at his most repulsively idiotic.
Overall Fahrenheit 9/11' is the most audacious presentation of Michael Moore's one-sided argument, it is not a fair review of George W. Bush and his government but its' not supposed to be. As long as you realise this and accept it you will find here a superb piece of documentary film making which thoroughly deserves its Palme d'Or. It transcends its most obvious themes of Bush, Iraq to make a fair greater and more haunting damnation on capitalism as a whole its super left-wing; it's an idealistic liberal viewpoint but its one hell of an argument. This should be seen by everyone.
The opening 10/15 minutes sums up the basis of Moore's book Stupid White Men' in which he claims Bush rigged the 2000 election in which he gained power, the way in which the election is shown and the protests in the Senate are played out is genuinely upsetting and shows his side of an argument he has mastered arguing for the past four years at its most passionate.
That is the best way to look at the film, not to judge it on right or wrong or constantly considering the other side of the argument, save that for afterwards at the pub with the usual alcohol-inspired debate team. This is Michael Moore's argument and rarely has a side to a debate been so fantastically put across.
Moore masters the medium of cinema on his second major outing after 2002's Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine'. After a wonderful title sequence Bush is ridiculed, his every move as a president quashed from all sides, Moore brings out all the evidence to prove the incompetence of Bush Jr. but the film hits its most impactual moment when the title-date arrives. The screen goes entirely black and all we are left with is the haunting sounds of planes crashing into the Twin Towers and the chaos that ensues a perfect example of what you can't see being far worse than what you can, the image is not only unnecessary as we have seen them so much we are almost de-sensitised but it is far more impacting without it.
Moore brings out the tear jerker moments again when he shows a staunch war supporter proud of her son in Iraq before the war then her change of feeling after he has died. Mixed in with this are moments where the audience collectively shakes their head in disbelief as the web of deceit and corruption inside American is shown for all to see alongside moments of hilarity as Moore shows Bush at his most repulsively idiotic.
Overall Fahrenheit 9/11' is the most audacious presentation of Michael Moore's one-sided argument, it is not a fair review of George W. Bush and his government but its' not supposed to be. As long as you realise this and accept it you will find here a superb piece of documentary film making which thoroughly deserves its Palme d'Or. It transcends its most obvious themes of Bush, Iraq to make a fair greater and more haunting damnation on capitalism as a whole its super left-wing; it's an idealistic liberal viewpoint but its one hell of an argument. This should be seen by everyone.
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