"Farenheit 9/11" is just incredible. It doesn't have the grassroots feel of "Roger & Me," and it isn't as freewheeling as "Bowling for Columbine;" but it is a polished, fierce, imaginative, and deeply felt polemic about Bush and the war in Iraq. The crowd in theater where I saw it was so large one would have thought it was the latest summer blockbuster rather than a $6 million documentary. People laughed, gasped, applauded, and otherwise reacted very strongly. If this film gets people to really think about the direction this country is going today, whether they end up agreeing with Michael Moore or not after seeing it, then he has done his country a unique service.
Funny . . . Michael Moore didn't start out to become a gadfly documentary filmmaker. But back in the early '80's GM began to close plants in his hometown of Flint, MI, triggering a long economic implosion in the area. He put some money together to make a film about it and the result was "Roger & Me." He had planned to just show it in union halls and places like that, but Warner Bros. heard about it somehow and picked it up for distribution. The rest, as they say, is history. Funny how things happen sometimes, isn't it?
Funny . . . Michael Moore didn't start out to become a gadfly documentary filmmaker. But back in the early '80's GM began to close plants in his hometown of Flint, MI, triggering a long economic implosion in the area. He put some money together to make a film about it and the result was "Roger & Me." He had planned to just show it in union halls and places like that, but Warner Bros. heard about it somehow and picked it up for distribution. The rest, as they say, is history. Funny how things happen sometimes, isn't it?