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Oh my God but Michael Moore is infuriating.
He has made a massively flawed quasi-documentary that treads dangerously close to excessive propaganda, a movie that never lets BushCo have the slightest hint of breathing space (not that they really deserve it) and he zooms his camera in on the distraught faces of weeping mothers and tormented soldiers and holds the lens there far too long, making you go, OK OK, enough already with the misery porn and the emo-manipulation.
Moore takes numerous cheap shots and finds far too many easy targets among the political elite, and he cleverly edits his footage to make the various politicians he skewers appear even more vacuous and slithery and alien and sad than they normally might, which is already quite a lot, I mean would you just look at Dick Cheney because wow the man is sinister subterfuge incarnate. Shudder. (snip ...)
And when you combine "Fahrenheit" with another, less polemical, more straightforwardly frightening must-see documentary that's out now, called "The Hunting of the President," which delineates the GOP's shockingly savage, historic, calculated attempt to destroy Bill Clinton, you've got a portrait of a Republican Party that makes the frayed ragtag fundamentalist nutballs of the Taliban look like some sort of Tupperware party. (more ...)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/07/07/notes070704.DTL&nl=fix
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