Watched Fahrenheit 9/11 last night at the GasLamp downtown. I love the GasLamp Theatre, but the poor place is usually dead, not many people want to bother with parking downtown. Not last night though, the place was packed, and the theater was packed to see 9/11.
The movie? Ultimately, I liked it. But I was a little disappointed in the way Moore did a couple things. For example, not much was said of Iraq and Saddam. The commentary of the movie implied that he was not a threat. While this is true in a global scale, Saddam was a real bastard to the Kurds and Iraqis. Moore could have asked, why Iraq? Why not the other dictatorships around the world that screw over their people and sell weapons to terrorists? North Korean, I’m looking at you. In taking cheap shots he polarized the film, and made it much easier to write off as conspiracy theory or propaganda.
Moore did one thing well, he had great film footage. Bush warming up before the cameras, him reading to kids for 9 minutes after the plane hit the 2nd tower, interviews with troops, poignant news clippings, Marine recruiters in Flint, etc. All of it showed just how absurd the whole situation was.