Fahrenheit 9/11

[clarinelf]

So, on a completely different topic . . . Last night I saw "Fahrenheit 9/11" with my parents. I am not, and never was, fully informed/at a complete understanding of what is going on with Iraq and all of the politics and non-political things behind it, but I must say that Michael Moore is good. Like Mike Royko, only with a camcorder instead of a typewriter.

I acknowledge that it is propoganda. But surely propoganda at its very best. The scary thing about that movie is not that it is such, but that the corporate people at Disney or some such related company (please correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm going off of what my dad told me) almost wouldn't release it; that a Canadian company had to fund it. Sad stuff right there.

The soldier who rode in the tank and who recited the lyrics to that "the roof is on fire" song made my skin crawl. THAT is his idea of an adrenaline rush, going into cities in a country that we shouldn't even be in and burning homes and killing civilians?! He reminded me of that excessively ignorant guy who was in my World Studies class last year. Ick.

I mean, ok. I can understand liking adrenaline. But aren't there more humane (and less expletive-filled) ways of getting a rush like that? How about skydiving, or roller-coaster-riding, or riding a jet ski? Huh?

The lady from Michael Moore's hometown of Flint, Michigan, who lost her son: At first, I didn't really think that much of her. With all that stuff about "the flag is so great blah blah blah" and how she hated the Vietnam protestors, I wasn't too turned on to her views. But after she started to get really emotional about her son's death (who wouldn't? About their son's death, I mean.) and went to the White House and said that that was the place she could channel all of her anger and sorrow, well. I liked her a lot better then.

Although I did admire her for being a person from such a poverty-stricken town and making it as far as she did with the training program she talked about at the beginning.

The Marine recruiters in Flint also made my skin crawl. "Hey, there's one over there - you go to the left, I'll go around the other side and we'll corner him!" or something equally heinous as that. Also, what was up with them promising that one guy a music career??!?! WTF if I ever said it.

Michael Moore asking the congressmen to send their own children to Iraq = brilliant.

There's so much I want to talk about. I really should go see that again . . .