Honestly, how can you dislike someone who utilizes the constitution? Someone who speaks his thoughts? Someone who uses freedom of speech to his advantage? If anything, everyone should be applauding him, whether or not you agree with him, he doesn’t care, he will say what he wants and show you what he wants.
During the week of the Academy Awards, on Bill O’Reilly’s The Factor news program, Moore was labeled the pin head of the week (a segment O’Reilly has on each week). Moore was the pinhead of the week because of this, he said something on the lines of this:
Who knows if the Oscars are on for sure now maybe I’ll bring Castro considering he is no longer the dictator. I’ll bring him as my guest and maybe I’ll let him give the acceptance speech.
Pinhead? Or pretty genius? He knew it would make people made and he was the pinhead of the week, bravo. I laughed when I heard that, I knew it was a joke, and he knew he was going to make people mad. Something I think he likes to do and it isn’t hard when you think and speech for yourself.
Yes his films are bias, from his perspective, which can be very manipulative. But as a filmmaker that is what he is trying to do. He is trying to change your mind, make you think differently. He makes you open your eyes to things you didn’t know, even if you believe it or not.
A lot of this manipulation is done within the editing. He does the voice over for his films, speaking his thoughts. His use of music is so prevalent and I know I chuckled a little when I was watching Sicko, especially when the song “I Got A Golden Ticket” from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory came on when he was talking about Billy Townsend and other members on capital hill getting paid. The Star Wars parody when the list of conditions not covered by the health insurance comes on the screen is pretty funny, connecting with the audience, everyone knows what that is and what film that and the song comes from. He used archival footage of communist countries when talking about making health care nation wide because people, like Senator McCain, were saying “that’s what it’s like in communist countries.” Whatever, you idiot, so we’ll be commies if everyone is given free universal health care, right. I don’t understand people sometimes. He used archival footage when he was talking about “the American Dream”, footage of old household appliance commercials and TV shows from the happy go lucky 1950’s. The soundtrack overlay was “America the Beautiful”, hilarious.
I love this movie, and from looking at other review websites, such as rottentomatoes, I know I’m not the only one. Many people know about the corruption within our government and the insurance companies but seeing it in an hour and 35 minute documentary you see it visually and you can’t believe your eyes. Michael Moore uses freedom of speech to his advantage and people hate him for it.
7 comments:
You didn't include Kipnis at all and you didn't include any reviews from other people. The only reviews you did include were reviews of Micheal Moore, himself. I'd really like to find out what you think of the movie, not of Micheal Moore. 1 Star
1)*
2)(This was hard)
3)Specific critics?
4* Nice summarization off manipulation tactics.
5)Nothing fun to click on or seemingly out of the ordinary from usual blogs. This does not mean you wrote a poor piece in my opinion! I am just going by the star system.
I think you did a great job of describing the film, and decunstructing the ways and uses of Moore's film making teckniques. you gave some of your own insight into the film but i would like to have seen more of your opinion on how it affected you, there was also no link to Kipin's article.
3 stars
This review is a bit short and lacking in my opinion. That doesn't mean its not good, but I just think you didn't incorportate certain things what you should have. First off, we know that Michael Moore is not the most popular of characters in the file industry but I think that is a point that should only be made briefly. I would have liked to of heard your opinion of the film and what it incorporates. Also your personal relation to this issue and what about the other reviewers to further support your opinion. I dont feel your review embodied what was required and overall I would have liked to hear more about the health care issues from you. 2 1/2 stars
2 stars
I like how your personal opinion was strong right from the start, but there were no supporting quotes from any critics or from the Kipnis article. I would have also like to have heard more about the healthcare problem as shown the film, not just about how Michael Moore decided to make the film.
2.5 stars.
You didn't use a Kipnis reference or other critic reviews. I would have liked to see you talk about a few scenes in the film that stood out for you. That would have been nice. You seemed more interested in the Michael Moore hype rather than the film itself.
I am giving you * * * Stars. You included A LOT of information on how and why people hate Michael Moore, your opinion of the movie- (which you talked about a lot)and a summary of the movie. I would have liked to see more of what you thought of movie and not of Michael Moore as well also. I would have to agree with the other reviewers. I like your review, it's just not a review of the proper material. Also, I got somewhat confused reading your review because of grammar, and your structuring. You had a lot of short little snippets for parragraphs and when you were qouting Moore on O'Rielly, the uses of quotes would have been useful. At first I thought I was still reading your words.
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