The basic premise of this film is to get people to react in a 'knee jerk' fashion.
One thing about MM is the fact that he interjects himself into the story and uses his 'comedic talents' to distract the audience from the 'facts'
he leaves out.
There are areas that can be contested about the info contained in this film. I understand why people would come out of this film stunned and willing to make a change in our gov't.
For one thing, watching interviews of people leaving the theater scare the poop out of me..
Instead of hearing people say that they are going to 'look into the issues' before making a judgement about the movie, you have people who are convinced that every word in the movie is gospel.
It's good to have a film open up communcation about the issues, but the anger against the opposition is sad and rather childish.
Here in the southland a group of republican volunteers set up a table to sign up people who were coming out of the theater to vote....Not a real smart move if you ask me.
Well, it turns into a shouting match and someone spits on the guy at the table...
I have yet to figure out why anyone would want to go to jail over politics.
The guy in the movie that is visited by the FBI because of his arguement against the war was another thing that struck me as strange....
When the topic gets vicious it's time to back away or change the subject...We only have HIS point of view. We don't know if it was the pro-war people who were being jerks or if he had a 'jerk' attack
during the conversation.
Obviously, someone was agitated enough to call the FBI. Someone shot their mouth off, THAT was the reason why this guy was visited by the Feds...
That part of the film is a wash...everyone will lie to make it look like it was the other guy's fault.
It would make sense to take a few days to check out the facts in this movie....but then again, why
bother if MM is such a reliable, honest individual????
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