Saw Farenheit 9/11 last night with Dim. Wow. I thought that Kat was being sappy when she said that the movie made her cry. Nope. Bring Kleenex if you go to see the movie.
To Moore's credit, he never used footage of the 9/11 plane crashes. Instead, he makes the screen black and viewers only hear the planes slamming into the WTC. It was really moving to hear the crashes, the screams, and the fluttering of paper.
Moore's impish antics are in the film (most notably his attempts to get congresspeople to enlist their kids in the army and hijacking an ice cream truck to drive around the capitol to read senators the Patriot Act). Much of the time, though, he lets others do it for him. (e.g.- he films Marine recruiters try scary cult-like tactics to get poor inner-city kids to join the military and he films a mother who lost a son in Iraq confront a woman who thinks that the war in Iraq is a sham that's filmed on a soundstage.)
I highly recommend you see the movie. Bring kleenex for use during the movie and a sounding board for use after the movie.
Posted by Jen at June 28, 2004 11:40 AM