Archive for August 2004
Fahrenheit 9/11 - 2004-08-14 01:37:53
An interesting film, the Fox News of the left if you will.
Completely unbalanced propoganda.
The contrasts with Bowling for Columbine are stark. Bowling essentially raises a number of explanations for the level of gun violence in the US and then provides a bunch of counter arguments against them. Fahrenheit on the other hand just argues its point from start to finish, ignoring everything that doesn't fit the theory.
It's an emotional argument which makes a number of flawed arguments. But it is persistant.
The repeat something enough and people will believe it
technique used so effectively by the targets of this film (Bush and his administration) - think Saddam has links with Al-Queda
- is used by Moore against them.
Sure it's not a great documentary and it's not well argued but it's worth watching just to see the tables turned.