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July 18, 2004
Farenheit 9/11
Finally got around to watching Farenheit 9/11 on Friday night. Michael Moore isn't everyone's 'cup of tea' (I was a little irritated by his style in Stupid White Men, for example) but he actually maintains quite a low profile in this film, leaving the limelight to the main character, President George W. Bush. It is a 'must see' movie although I did find the whole thing rather distressing. I watched it in a Dublin movie theatre and, needless to say, there was a very sympathetic audience (complete with a ripple of applause at the end!) The more important question, of course, will be how the film will be received in the US.
Posted by jeremy at July 18, 2004 11:36 PM
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I went to see the movie on Friday night at a Greens party premier. I thought that the film was cleverly executed. It was extremely biased but most of the media is. What is fact or fiction depends on the author.
As an optimist I hope that many questions will be raised in peoples minds about more intellectually stimulating content and away from reality t.v. which I find perturbing.
From a macro and micro perspective, there were many disturbing aspects of the film. What in particular did you find distressing?
Posted by: Shellie at July 19, 2004 05:35 AM
The grief of mothers (Iraqi and US); the psychological effect war has on young men (killing machines to the sound of music); and the fact the demographic signing up to join the armed forces (coming back in body bags) are often the very same as that of the disenfranchised voters in 2000. I could go on ...
Posted by: jeremy at July 20, 2004 08:52 PM
Jesus, Jeremy - what's with the spam comments?
Posted by: Kerry at August 3, 2004 02:07 PM
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