Hey Paul,
I saw that film and it really hacked me off. Michael Moore sets out to find any sort of indiscression or misdemeanor that has been portrayed by Bush in his whole life. There are many, and the film could have been more accurate, nay more interesting if he stuck to the facts rather than trying to move away and make personal attacks on the man.
In one section of the film he pulls out this poor woman who has lost her son in the Iraq war, the first we hear from her is that it was the happiest day of their families life that their son made it into the US army. Now obviously this woman is upset so we are shown her breaking down into tears regularly, of course she is going to say that she is sad that she lost her son, and that the war is a bad thing, but should we as the viewer, be forcing our way into what is surely one of her most intimate and personal times?
The tone of the film is set again by Moore showing us Iraq before the war: loads of weddings and children playing in the park and folk just out and about having fun, cue the hard music and pictures of the army rolling into town and look what Bush did!!!! They were just having a great time with no problems and he ruined everything!
We all know that this is not the case, or do we? Moore has no doubt made a lot of money out of this 'documentary' and fair play to him for that. He should perhaps appologise slightly that the propaganda he attempts to attack Bush for using, is exactly what his works in film and print are.
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I couldn't agree more: selective, biased and disrespectful.
Posted by sarah at November 19, 2004 01:06 PMI borrowed it, I watched it, I hated it. Not my idea of either entertainment or information. Big waste of my time. But at least I've now seen it.
Posted by Paul at November 24, 2004 01:54 AM