Originally posted by smegger_em
yeah it's been released in america...and apparently some of the audiences were crying in hystercis...screaming at images of george bush and crying and clapping at the end...does this sound familiar to anyone...well it probably would if you had read 1984....you know the "two minutes of hate"? i think it's become a reality...i agree with you glycerine...i really don't like the man...he's not objective enough....so much of the information he puts forth is sensationalised...but people are willing to accept EVERYTHING that he says as truth, just cause it's left wing. it's ironic, most of his audience is trying so hard to search for the truth, and they think that they've found it, but i think they're really deluded.
exactly. in fact, that's what i was reminded of. especially in shown pictures of iraqi children flying kites before the war and acting like it only became a violent place after the invasion. like yeah i didn't support the war either, but i'm not so deluded to think that it was a happy happy sunshine place before it happened either.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/27/1088274628050.html
this is a good article on f911
"Moore also makes fun of Bush for being "elite". One clip shows the President in white tie, addressing a group he describes as "the have, and the have mores", which gets some laughs.
Not many people know this, but if the Democrat John Kerry wins the US election in November he will be the second-richest president in the last 100 years (behind another Democrat, John F.Kennedy). Together with his wife, Teresa, who is one of the heirs to the Heinz fortune, Kerry has assets worth $US500 million ($700 million), and homes worth $US29 million. Kerry's supporters include the Rockefellers and the billionaire George Soros. None of this is mentioned in Moore's movie.
Of course, some of Bush's money is oil money, and Moore thinks oil money is evil. He makes a lot of jokes about Bush being a Texas oil man, but you could just as easily poke fun at Kerry, who has also taken money from the oil industry. Indeed, one joke doing the rounds in Washington right now is that Kerry will need to invade a small oil country just to meet his own family's fuel needs. They have eight cars, a powerboat, a Harley-Davidson and, of course, a private jet. Kerry's for sustainable energy policies, by the way. But again, that's not in the film. "
and this one from the australian:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9953501%5E28737,00.html
" We are introduced to Iraq, a "sovereign nation". In this peaceable kingdom, according to Moore's flabbergasting choice of film shots, children are flying little kites, shoppers are smiling in the sunshine and the gentle rhythms of life are undisturbed. Then - wham! From the night sky come the terror weapons of US imperialism. Watching the clips Moore uses, and recalling them well, I can recognise various Saddam palaces and military and police centres getting the treatment. But these sites are not identified as such. In fact, I don't think Al-Jazeera would, on a bad day, have transmitted anything so utterly propagandistic."
apparently that article is written by the guy who said mother therasa was evil tho
