Reply #80: Detroit 7:00 PM

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Looks like every evening show was sold out. The audience applauded at the end and at various points in the film and the reaction in general seemed positive.

Personally I was a bit underwhelmed by the film and I find all the unqualified praise a bit dittoheadish. While I generally agree with MM's point of view, I didn't really learn anything new, and I thought too much artistic license was taken at times and that certain facts were omitted so as to keep the film from being too complicated. I found the images and music together to be pretty cliche and formulaic, particularly the Shiny Happy People bit. I wonder if he threw that in to make Michael Stipe happy cuz I didn't really need to see a minute and a half of Bushies shaking hands with Saudi royals to get the point.

Even so, I think the film is an effective piece of propaganda and I don't mean that to be negative. Perhaps a four hour documentary that was a bit more nuanced in its approach to 9/11 and the war would have been more informative, but I don't think it would have motivated me to work for the Democrats as much as seeing W's smug, ignorant ass juxtaposed next to all of that death, pain and suffering. Is this movie one sided? Yes, but it's one side we haven't really seen on television or in major movies at all. Even if it is a bit overly simplistic, it's much much closer to the whole truth than the horseshit narrative that the Bush administration and conservatives have been feeding us for the past 3 years.