Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Admirable film.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I've seen most of Moore's documentaries and just like watching Stone's JFK...they ALL have the point of view (correct or not) of the director. Madonna showed the younger generation that NOTHING was UNACCEPTABLE. In fact the more controversy, the better. Right Madonna? You did such a great job, now even YOU can't shock anyone these days!But to my point for writing. I can't help but be wondering if this person who I happen to agree with regarding everything before, during, and after 9/11. In fact I KNOW for a certainty, that our own CIA under the planning and directions of the very same power brokers who are true born US citizens and those not of this country made sure this country had yet one more in a long line of PUBLIC attacks against the people who live in this once great country are manipulated in whatever way they deem required to obtain their goals. Usually, like most things, the truth is buried, BIG money is made or exchanged, and just like your typical magic show...the people are supposed to be looking where THEY want. As long as the truth is never believed by the majority of the country's population, THEY never ever have to fear any type of uprising or reprisals by the (now extinct) Middle Class majority.Just what does this same comment writer who wrote about this movie think or have thought about the Obama eight years of treason? What does this person think of the Clinton's decades of treason and profiteering? Has this same man spent any time at all thinking about how the Clinton's or the Obama's became so rich? I wonder if he is a Trump hater? It's been nearly 13 years since this movie & his post. If you're there, please feel free to write me. I'd post my email, but it's not allowed here. Has Moore made any movie about the 8 years of Obama? I'm guessing NO, but I'll look to be certain.

Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is a fiercely furious and unabashedly partisan challenge to the George W. Bush administration. In his incisive diatribe, Moore makes his points with an avalanche of facts, wisecracks, and often-snarky, sometimes-outraged commentary. But much more than a scathing indictment of Dubya-era complicity, Michael Moore's exposé lays bare the devastating heartbreak now central to America's wartime reality.Before Moore gets to America's "war-on-terror", he establishes his argument for why Bush's Presidency is invalid to begin with. Moore revisits the election debacle of 2000 and then shows how Bush was essentially a lame duck President (who spent 42% of his first 8 months of office on vacation) until the fateful morning of September 11 when those planes slammed into the World Trade Center, forever changing everything. In one of the more talked-about sequences, President Bush sits in a Florida classroom and reads along with second-graders the book 'My Pet Goat' - fitting, since Bush here, is Michael Moore's pet goat, in the sense of the word meaning "a target of ridicule". Bush sits there vacuously as the students read aloud; a timer on the screen tells us that he sat there for seven minutes, his expression blank and his manner untroubled, after hearing that the second World Trade Center tower had been hit and that America was under attack. Nothing Moore can say is more quietly damning than this footage.Most of the movie is wickedly enjoyable – we see President Bush talk about terrorism when he's on the golf course, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld explain the "humanity" of our surgical strikes and Congressmen duck when asked if their children will enlist to fight in the war they voted for. Much of the material about the administration and the war is already well-known to people who follow the news carefully. But assembled as a dossier of complex inter-relationships, conflicts of interest, ignorance, thuggishness, it's a devastating attack. The movie provides a persuasive commentary on the long-standing ties between the Bush family and the Saudi Bin Ladens and, more importantly, on the Bush Administration's extravagant hoodwinking of America which, ultimately, points us to the imbroglio in Iraq. The sentimentalism and the clownish muckraking (laying it on thick at times with banjo music) – both trademark Michael Moore – are certainly on display here, but Moore isn't so fast-and-loose with them this time. He creates a true and sober picture of the government-military nexus that feeds on America's poor as it willfully wages a war outrageously suspect in its motives. Moore powerfully draws attention to the toll that Bush's war has taken on Iraqi innocents, on American soldiers and the grieving families of those soldiers who died fighting for an unjust cause. While not a radical departure from his usual style, Fahrenheit 9/11 stands as a sign of cinematic maturity for Moore. He finally matches his rhetorical power with an aesthetic sensibility that is at times almost artful - moments in which he drives his point home visually in a way that stuns you into silence. Michael Moore is angry and he wants America to be angry with him. Regardless of where you stand in the political spectrum, you will be!

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004): Dir: Michael Moore / Featuring: Michael Moore, George W. Bush: Michael Moore's fantastic followup to his previous hit Bowling for Columbine. This time he addresses issues that are kept from the public that resulted in one of the darkest days of the century. Moore targets U.S. President George W. Bush and various elements that surrounded the terrorist bombings of September 11th, 2001. According to the film Bush was warned prior to the incident but chose not to act. Moore interviews those who have lost family to the tragedy and even address those whose children were sent off to fight. One particularly amusing sequence involves Moore approaching members of the White House asking if they would send their children off to fight. Moore's film is powerful and sad but it is not without the trademark humour much of which makes Bush look like a jackass. One could just watch Moore make fun of Bush for ninety minutes and that may even suffice as a passable documentary. Moore is one of the best of documentary filmmakers whose physical presence has become familiar. Whether viewers agree with him or not, he certainly makes his point in his ploy against the media's desire to exploit this stuff. A must-see for anyone seeking understanding on what happened behind the scenes during that date that will long haunt our memory. Score: 10 / 10

"Fahrenheit 9/11", possibly remains just as controversial now as it did back in 2004. Where I definitely consider this documentary to be the one where Michael's opinion really has a much larger presence than it needs to have, it's exceptionally well put together and really shows off some of the well known absurdities of George Bush's time as President.Whereas the first half focuses on Bush's campaign and actions, the remaining half focuses on the devastation of the Iraq War. The segments where people in and outside America "cheerlead" the War, as well as the prisoner abuse kind of unsettles and angers me. The fact that a majority of soldiers are made up from the poorer class systems seems like a no brainer, and I do like it when Moore tries to persuade Senator's to sign up their children. It's crude and absurd, yet sometimes there is no right and wrong when it comes to War.Final Verdict: The only thing left to mention is see it and make up your own interpretation. In many ways it's all a farce, but thanks to the freedom of speech we'll always have our own opinions. 8/10.