Wow. We just got home, what an event.
Crysta and I left the theatre, found the car and drove half way home before either of us said a single word. Whatever you can say about it, it affects you. Crysta just said "I can't believe we're thinking such completely different things about that movie." So true.
As an outsider, (and I always get in trouble with the insiders for my opinions, especially strongly held opinions) I loath and always have loathed Bush and his regime. But now I loathe Michael Moore too. This documentary disgusted me.
One of the parts to the documentary was an analysis of how the 'alert status', television coverage and warnings were skillfully manipulated to maintain a tension in the American people. Tension that erodes, and controls. Talking about skillful manipulation . . . Moore has taken so many clips from so many sources and strung them together in such a way that his caricatures say whatever was on his script.
By taking publicly available footage no one can doubt the facts, but I for one doubt the greater conclusions he asks us to draw by the strings. The segments that dealt with longer interviews and extended news coverage were enlightening, moving and frightening. The spliced together clips reminded me of a Simpson’s episode, or perhaps a three ringed circus.
Bush is corrupt and his regime a risk to the whole world, and particularly America, which for all my ribbing, is quite conceivable the greatest nation of our times.
