Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Fahrenheit 911

I just bought Fahrenheit 911 at blockbuster, and if you haven't watched it yet, you need to.
Michael Moore made a documentary in the 1989 called Roger and Me, about the effect that General Motors downsizing had on a small town in Michigan called Flint. He pioneered the guerilla documentary, and was a frontrunner for a new type of 'journalism' where the journalist stands outside of a company with a megaphone demanding the "truth" much like what might be found in the anti-smoking commercials of the TRUTH campaign
Later he had a show in the 90's called TV Nation doing the same type of investigations of congress, corporate America, the white house- making for some entertaining, albeit eye-opening stuff. Karen Duffy, or "Duff" from MTV was on the show as a field reporter as well.
Fast forward to now, and with the release of Fahrenheit 9-11, and he raises some very interesting questions about the Bush family's relation to Saudi families, how much money Dick Cheney's former company stands to make off of the rebuilding of Iraq, as well as many other allegations of a hidden agenda behind the Patriot Act
Michael Moore is a flaming liberal, so I have always taken what he has to say with a grain of salt, and the neat video editing tricks tend to throw you off, but this movie is one you should watch. It raises some very key questions about the motivations of our government, and what our role in the world should be.

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