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DanaC · 07-21-2004, 01:08 PM

Thanks Happy Monkey

you just saved me the trouble of searching Google to debunk the critics. I just went to see the film last night and was both moved and impressed by it. I think it fully deserved the Palm D'Or at Cannes purely on the films merit. The opening sequence is a beautifully directed piece.

What I always find strangely comforting about moore's films is that they show an America I can relate to. The people of Flint look and sound like the people of Bolton, the old Northern Milltown I grew up in during a time when it's manufacturing base had been ripped apart. I know that environment. I grew up in a similar looking place with similar employment prospects at a time when unemployment for 19-29 year olds was running at an all time high in a Britain with nearly 4 million unemployed. ( officially)

The other thing I find moving about Moore's films and indeed his TV apperances is his humanity, his compassion for the workingclass backbone of America whose interests are systematically ignored by the electoral system they live under.

I find it amazing, that when such a large cloud hangs over the election results which somehow returned a Democratic winner but a Republican President that so many people concentrate their efforts on proving Moore a liar. Moore is not the one who put the cloud over the election results, he merely pointed it out along with many others.

Lie after lie from an administration whose interests lie firmly with their international family of oil and who is being harangued for his facts? The people who took a coalition of nations to war on a false prospectus? The people who lied to us all about Iraq's involvement with Al Quaeda and in doing so allowed the perpetrators of 9/11 get away into the Bora bora mountains where they are once more regrouped and in control of large areas ?

Lie upon lie, crime upon crime. Crimes of epic proportion which in another time or place would bring down a People's anger on the heads of those who committed them and it's Michael Moore who is demonised in the press and artistes who question the supreme will and right of the president to wage war in their name who are bullied into silence.

In any other country this would be seen as a form of covert dictatorship. When a man can lose an election and still take the seat of power it has all the hallmarks of a coup. But this happened in America, the worlds greatest democracy and the model for freedom in todays world. Terrifying.

07-21-2004, 01:08 PM	#4
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Thanks Happy Monkey you just saved me the trouble of searching Google to debunk the critics. I just went to see the film last night and was both moved and impressed by it. I think it fully deserved the Palm D'Or at Cannes purely on the films merit. The opening sequence is a beautifully directed piece. What I always find strangely comforting about moore's films is that they show an America I can relate to. The people of Flint look and sound like the people of Bolton, the old Northern Milltown I grew up in during a time when it's manufacturing base had been ripped apart. I know that environment. I grew up in a similar looking place with similar employment prospects at a time when unemployment for 19-29 year olds was running at an all time high in a Britain with nearly 4 million unemployed. ( officially) The other thing I find moving about Moore's films and indeed his TV apperances is his humanity, his compassion for the workingclass backbone of America whose interests are systematically ignored by the electoral system they live under. I find it amazing, that when such a large cloud hangs over the election results which somehow returned a Democratic winner but a Republican President that so many people concentrate their efforts on proving Moore a liar. Moore is not the one who put the cloud over the election results, he merely pointed it out along with many others. Lie after lie from an administration whose interests lie firmly with their international family of oil and who is being harangued for his facts? The people who took a coalition of nations to war on a false prospectus? The people who lied to us all about Iraq's involvement with Al Quaeda and in doing so allowed the perpetrators of 9/11 get away into the Bora bora mountains where they are once more regrouped and in control of large areas ? Lie upon lie, crime upon crime. Crimes of epic proportion which in another time or place would bring down a People's anger on the heads of those who committed them and it's Michael Moore who is demonised in the press and artistes who question the supreme will and right of the president to wage war in their name who are bullied into silence. In any other country this would be seen as a form of covert dictatorship. When a man can lose an election and still take the seat of power it has all the hallmarks of a coup. But this happened in America, the worlds greatest democracy and the model for freedom in todays world. Terrifying. Last edited by DanaC; 07-21-2004 at 01:10 PM.