Well, I finally did it.
I saw "Farenheit 9-11".
Of course I'm the last person who'd want to put yet still more money into the coffers of one Michael Moore, so I paid for "The Notebook" (the closest to "Farenheits" scheduled time) and entered the theater for "Farenheit 9-11" with smuggled candy in shorts.
I should have smuggled tissues and General Foods International instead and gone with the tearjerkin' melodrama...
"Farenheit 9-11" is an exercise in incompetence. A diatribe of amoral hyperbolic buffoonery. And 2 hour piece of Left-Wing anti-american pornography. The juxtaposition of imagery is done in such an overcharged, bang-bang pot-shot way that you're left wondering what the crap you just saw, and why.
Technically the film is a mess, and proves to me that the Cannes Film Festival panel's love of this film on it's "technical merits" is utter hogwash. Those dirty film loving Frogs liked this because it tears Bush a new cornhole. It is no "technical acheivement", is not tightly edited at all, and drags from one tenuous explanation to the next.
All documentaries, indeed all FILMS are about manipulating emotions. That's the heartbeat of the medium and I don't pretend it otherwise. But this movie, manipulates you and you KNOW you're being manipulated the whole time. It's the film equivalent of breaking up with your 2 week girlfriend in the 7th grade. You're being pulled and prodded the whole time, but you go with it anyway, in this case because you are a) a frothing liberal who gets almost sexually excited by anyone even moderately to the right looking like an ass or b) you're of the more right-persuasion and you've become mesmerized by the continuing idiocy of the liberal "mind".
Moore's assumption, as I understand it, is this:
-George W. Bush was responsible for 9-11. He was lax with stopping terrorism, and indeed is a friend of the Bin Ladens so he wouldn't do anything anyway. The only reason we are in Iraq is because of oil and oil is bad, very, very bad. George Bush likes it when American soldiers die because that will make his stock rise .6 points. George W. Bush is an idiot who dosen't take things seriously. Oh but wait, he's an idiot who takes things too seriously now with his homeland security and "Patriot Acts". George Bush and his cabinet have to get "made up" before events. This makes them stupid and means they like it when Iraqi babies die. The current War is apparently the first war in history where soldiers have died and also the first where civilians have died. When a war is "over" that means everything is peaches and roses and sunshine and their should be no more explosions. If there are that means Bush is a dirty liar and he eats Iraqi babies-
Okay I made that last line up...
That above paragraph may seem quite convulouted, incongrouous and random. Which is also a perfect description of "Farenheit 9-11".
It's all so extremely idiotic. Bush is a "friend" of the Bin Laden's in that he owned a company, that worked with a guy who knew the Bin Laden's, one of who blow up the World Trade Center. (Nevermind the Bin-Ladens have shunned Osama and have nothing to do with him, nor have they in 15 years-oh except 4 of them may or may not have gone to a Bin-Laden family wedding he was at in 2000) So in short Bush killed all those people on 9-11.
Bullshit. Anything involving oil is automatically dirty and crooked? Like it or not, oil makes the world go around. Bush is an rich oil guy. Big flipping deal. Oil is a big complex industry and is, what a shock, run big big complex oraganizations. You can't have Mom & Pop Oil Shops. If you hate oil, fine, then we need to NOT DRIVE CARS or FLY PLANES. We might as well go back to living in the jungle or the desert, which is actually what many liberals and terrorists want us to do. That's just one of 15 dozen things they have in common.
If Bush says something "serious" and then makes an off-the-cuff remark afterward that means he's not taking anything seriously. More bullshit. I mean do liberals even read history? Do they know their presidents? Of course they don't, they are liberals. If everyone read their history there would be no liberals. We've had a great number of great Presidents who were plain-spoken and loved to make funny, seemingly careless remarks.(Uh, Reagan? Hello?) It's called genuine charm, not manufactured Bill Clinton sleazo charm.
According to Moore, most of our soldiers in Iraq are stupid, poor minorities who Bush has duped. They don't love their country you idiot American troop supporters! They are stupid and are serving because they have to. They like to abuse Iraqis for fun and sport (never mind the Iraqi they are shown "abusing" was probably headed to Abu Gharib, which is a prison compound for the rapists and murderers and theiving scum of Iraq.)
This is probably one of the most insulting things anyone has ever insinuated about our service men and women. And it shows Moore's total lack of understanding about how the military works and what it's like to be a soldier. Oh sure he "talks" to a few supporters who aren't fans of Bush. But give me a break. Let's not pretend that 95% of soldiers aren't conservative because they are. There have always been bad soldiers, in every major war. Misguided losers who somehow slip through the cracks. Read Stephen Ambroses "Citizen Soldiers" to learn all about the different types of people who fought in our greatest war, and it wouldn't suprise me to find out that most of your lousy, deserting soldiers are liberals...
The movie is disgusting, it makes you sick. And not in a "this war is so wrong, let's oust Bush" kind of sick. As a Christian this movie made me feel spritually opressed. If I was one of those wacky Pentecostal types I'd say Michael Moore is possessed by Satan.
But I think even Satan dosen't manipulate and deceive quite as brashly and abrasively as Michael Moore.
P.S. For the record, I'm not one of these types who thinks Michael Moore should shut up. He has every right to say what he says and make the "movies" he wants to. And I have every right to call him a total and complete anti-American buttwipe.
