'Fahrenheit 9/11': Connecting With a Hard Left -WashPost review of Film

[papau]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34917-2004May17.html

'Fahrenheit 9/11': Connecting With a Hard Left

By Desson Thomson Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 18, 2004; Page C01

CANNES, France -- "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's most powerful film since "Roger & Me," slices and dices President Bush's presidency into a thousand satirical pieces. It's a wonder the chief executive -- at least, the one portrayed in this movie -- doesn't scatter to the four winds like Texas dust.

Judging by the spirited pandemonium that has greeted this documentary at the Cannes Film Festival, "Fahrenheit 9/11" not only is the film to beat in the competition for the Golden Palm, it also has the makings of a cultural juggernaut -- a film for these troubling times.

With an ironic narrative that takes us from the Florida debacle that decided the 2000 presidential election to the current conflict in Iraq, Moore has almost endless fun at the president's expense. And he frequently uses the president as his own tragicomic scourge -- in other words, hanging him with his own words and facial expressions.

In one of the film's most dramatic moments, we watch the president attending an elementary school class on that ill-fated morning of Sept. 11. An aide whispers to him news of the plane crash into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The look on Bush's face is stunned, as any person's would be. A clock ticks away. The president looks as though he'll never get up from that seat. The minutes tick by.<snip>

Comment: Disney continues to not agree to either release the film, or to sell it to Bob and Harvey Weinstein so they can release it as individual producers or through a third party - so the July 4th tenative release date of the 110 minutes Fahrenheit 9/11 remains uncertain.

[Cheswick2.0]

1. he should put a bootlegged version right on the internet

I am sure that there could be enough back-up sites to make sure it would never be shut down.
If they are going to play hardball so should the left. Where does Disney get off censoring that information?

[mistertrickster]

2. Finally, the mass of Americans will see the truth . . .

The SECOND plane hits the SECOND tower, there can be no question of a terrorist attack, and the president just sits there at a p. r. event.

When America sees that, they'll finally get it . . .

[k in IA]

3. That is a rave review! Sounds like it must be very persuasive.

I hope it gets a very wide distribution so everyone can see it.

How much pressure do you think W's people will put on all the chain theaters not to show it?

[Sparkly]

4. Can't wait to see it, and buy it

That's going to be a DVD to own and loan. I can't wait to see it.

[Beetwasher]

5. This Is Going to be DEVASTATING to the Chimp

I can't wait. The buzz around this film alone and all the PR and all the screaming by the Repubs about it will be priceless...

[Gothmog]

6. Time had a good review also

I am looking forward to seeing this movie. It looks like it is going to be great.