Fahrenheit 9/11 Review
Fahrenheit 9/11, one of the most successful documentaries of all time, is a film that criticizes the Bush Administration with everything they do, but with good reason. Moore makes a great case of why he thinks that Bush is a failed president, and that his actions are dangerous and harmful. Moore shows that the U.S. Government uses tactics to keep their citizens afraid, like raising and lowering the threat levels, telling people they may be targeted using poisoned pens or RC planes.
Bush is characterized throughout the film as someone who wants to please his elite friends and the Saudis, who have given him billions of dollars. Bush also comes off as an unauthentic, inarticulate, simpleton who goes on vacation too much. He also paints him as a person who wants to be like his dad, and someone who associates with the wrong people.
One of the saddest points in the film comes from Lila Lipscomb, a woman who works at a Christian unemployment office in Michael Moore’s hometown of Flint, Michigan. She is introduced early in the film as someone who’s patriotic, and who teaches her kids that joining the military is a good option, as she cannot pay for them to go to college. Later in the film, Moore sees her after her son has been killed in Iraq. She reads her son’s last letter begins to question his and Bush’s involvement in the war. She goes to the Washington, not only for closure but to also show her anger. The saddest part comes when she is crying steps from the White House lawn as she explains the White House is now a place for her to put her anger and sadness, and she puts it towards the government she used to love.
Overall, I’d say this is a great film, one of my favorite documentaries of all time, and my favorite by Moore. I learned many things from this film, the thing that hit me the hardest was when Moore was taking about fear-mongering tactics used by the media and the government.
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