Michael Moore is a man people love to hate. I, myself, am on the fence. I didn't particularly enjoy "Bowling for Columbine" and I've not seen his earlier work, but "Fahrenheit 9/11" is an astounding film. Factually sound and relentless in its assault on the Bush White House, "Fahrenheit" takes us from a real art-house opening with the audio-only attacks on the World Trade Center to the run-down neighborhoods of Flint, Michigan, to the front lines of Iraq.
Particularly notable during the Iraq segments is the Fallujah debacle, complete with charred corpses being dragged through the streets and beaten with steel rods. Whether or not you think an R rating is appropriate, the film certainly earns it with these grotesque and horrifying scenes.
More important than the Bush-Bashing, I think, is the expose of the Military-Industrial Complex (which Bush and Cheney happen to be part of). Moore expertly connects the dots between the Bushes and oil-rich arabs. What we're left with is the government and cowed mass media badgering a populace to start a war which is in no way involved with the attacks of September 11th... a war not about WMD or al-Qaeda, but a war about the second largest known oil reserve in the world.
The only thing I would have to liked to see in Moore's "Fahrenheit" is republican Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address, warning Americans about the dangers of the Military-Industrial Complex... which is in full swing here.
9/10
Particularly notable during the Iraq segments is the Fallujah debacle, complete with charred corpses being dragged through the streets and beaten with steel rods. Whether or not you think an R rating is appropriate, the film certainly earns it with these grotesque and horrifying scenes.
More important than the Bush-Bashing, I think, is the expose of the Military-Industrial Complex (which Bush and Cheney happen to be part of). Moore expertly connects the dots between the Bushes and oil-rich arabs. What we're left with is the government and cowed mass media badgering a populace to start a war which is in no way involved with the attacks of September 11th... a war not about WMD or al-Qaeda, but a war about the second largest known oil reserve in the world.
The only thing I would have to liked to see in Moore's "Fahrenheit" is republican Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address, warning Americans about the dangers of the Military-Industrial Complex... which is in full swing here.
9/10