Fahrenheit 9/11 [2004]
Director: Michael Moore
Actor: Michael Moore
A lot of differing opinions have been given on Michael Moore’s latest documentary, but say what you want about this piece, if it doesn’t make you at least question what happened, then you’re walking with blinders on. Sure, there hasn’t been such a good propagandist since Leny Riefenstahl, but Moore’s incredibly sloppy and everyone who simply believes he’s speaking truth, or sees fact in what he offers are walking with those same blinders on.
Everything he offers is entirely suggestive while there’s very little actual proof. He asks you to think about all these facts that, when put together, paint a tremendously bleak picture of George W. Bush’s presidential administration and the hypocracy of a few very powerful corporations and government contractors.
Personally, I think that perhaps some of it is true, some of it isn’t, but there’s just so much questionable stuff that happened that the law of large numbers suggests, as Moore does, that at least some of it is true. While there’s no proof of what, at least it offers a little insight in that it happens. Whether it happened less under Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan, Carter, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, and whoever else I left out tracing that far back is not to be concluded. I think that everyone’s opinions are going to be strengthened, no matter what they are. Whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, socialist, communist, everyone will say “See!” So in that the movie doesn’t achieve what it clearly set out to achieve; “Anyone but Bush.”
One thing I would like to remark is that with such a growing anti-American sentiment around the world, this movie plays into the hands of those people, too. It’s not just American bias and views that are strengthened (dare I say confirmed), but it’s foreign bias and views as well.
