Infinite MonkeysI’m finally getting around to watching Fahrenheit 911. A few impressions:
-Moore’s voice sounds like he’s talking to children. It’s remarkable how annoying it is—I think it was a terrible mistake, and not one that he made in “Bowling for Columbine.”
-The footage of the President and various administration officials prepping before TV appearance is only effective if you really, really hate those guys.
-It’s been said before, but Moore has a blank screen while sounds of hitting the towers occur. He only focuses on the fear. The whole movie, actually, is the sort of fear mongering that much of “Bowling” criticizes. And it does have the opposite effect of what he wants…
-Man, this movie is boring. Moore’s previous movies were much, much better.
-The scene where he shows a happy pre-war Iraq, with kids flying kites, people laughing—then the devastation that the United States (without any allies whatsoever) wrought…well, that would have been laughably ridiculous if it weren’t so infuriating. Moore knows what he is doing here—unlike many of the errors in the movie that could be a matter of opinion, this is a case of Moore knowing he’s lying, but doing it anyway because the end justifies the means.
The only consolation in seeing this terrible, terrible movie is that it’s all over, and the good guys won. Partly because of this movie, I firmly believe.
P.S. It's worth reading again Hitchens critique from the left of Moore.
Posted by David at December 29, 2004 11:48 AM | TrackBack