Fahrenheit 9/11

Well, I saw it. Although, I did have to buy my ticket 5 hours prior and arrive 40 mins early just to stand in line outside the theatre. But, I saw it. It was a persuasive movie. And, for the most part, it served it's purpose. I can't say I agree with everything Michael Moore did as a filmmaker. And, that's basically what my review of this movie is about: the film. It's unfair to criticize anything but.

The passionate tone of Fahrenheit is my favorite aspect of the film. It is also the reason it has the problems it does. For instance, I felt insulted as an audience member when Michael Moore did the piece on the mother from Flint. For those of you who have not seen the movie, MM interviews a woman who's son was killed in Iraq. She has sinced changed her views on the war. When the woman reads the last letter her son wrote, I was sad. But, I was also shaking my head. I was shaking it because I MM didn't need to play the audience the way he did. I didn't need that story to pull at my heart strings. It was manipulative both to the mother and to myself. Her story was genuine, as was the general reaction to it. And, it's not that I felt that the story was too hard to watch. But, MM should think a little more highly of his audience. He should know, we don't need that to convince us.

I did love the way he presented the attacks on 9/11. It was a bold move to only play the sound with a black screen. It was a unique take that has never been presented to us before.

The greatest thing about F 9/11 is that it will get people asking questions. Any film that can get people to research and create their own views is worth seeing. My only fear is that some will just accept MM's views as their own, without any thought of their personal views and experiences. Those people are just as bad as the losers who believe all the crap Bush has fed to them.

Overall, worth seeing in the theatre. However, PLEASE (I plead with you) do not CLAP at the end. That is the most ridiculous behavior. There's NO ONE there from the film to hear you. It is not live theatre, please do not treat it as such. Although I SUPPOSE the clapping is at least for a quality documentary. Unlike those freaks that clap at the end of Lord of the Rings.