So I watched Fahrenheit 9/11...

A lot of people look at this movie as a quite contriversial film. And I can see why people have banned it, people have looked down upon it. I thought Bowling for Columbine was a better documentary. IMO this film was one sided, hugely biased. I know, wierd that I am saying that, but I think Michael Moore was trying to hard to notify people and get people to think his way. While I agree with almost everything he has in the movie and I am not a fan of bush by any means I think a few things in the movie really just grinded me the wronge way because of the way it was potrayed.

1. When the planes hit the buildings on 9/11 Moore specifically focused on who Bush sat and read to Children in a classroom for 7 min after he was told. Yes, that is a bit long and yes that might have been confusion, but what would YOU do? I mean if you were the president and you found out that the country was under attack and you were reading to little children, I wouldn't start freaking out. Although I would step out of the room to figure out what was going on...

2. They had a segment of a family who lost thier son to Iraq. Now I know this is a touchy subject, but this my opinion and you can think of me what ever or you can choose to not read on....
They had had her talk of her son, read a letter he had wrote them and talk about the phone call that her son had passed in the first black hawk attack. Now, I have to hand it to Moore, he really can tear the tears out of you, it was very emmotional, I mean I was alone watching this and I cried. (shut-up). But, I thought it was interesting that the woman said: "why take him God, he didn't do anything, why take him" and I thought to myself, well if he had taken someone else, the other mother who had lost her son/daughter would have said the same thing, "why my child?." Many of the soldiers over there arn't over there because they choose to be, and to be quite honest, I wouldn't choose to be over there either. You can blame bush all you want, but that doesn't bring your children home. It just makes you hate the government more.

3. The signing up of Senators/Rep's children for the war. Now that was kinda stupid, it just pisses people off. You know that they arn't going to sign their children up for the service for Iraq.

Well enough about the bad stuff, somethings I did like:

I liked how he showed that many of the poor communities around the country are being recruited for the service. Quote: "The very people forced to live in the worst towns, go to the worse schools are always the first to step up to defend that very system. They serve, so that we don't have to. They offer to give up thier lives so that we can be free. It is remarkalbe thier gift to us. And all they ask of us is to not send them into harms way, until it is neccessary. Will they ever trust us again?"

All in all it was a good movie. It kept my interest while it had its stupid parts I think Moore did a good job. Although it was one sided, he did put a little bit of the "other" opinions. But I guess that was the point. I wonder what would happen if there would be a documentary almost a total opposite to this, that would be interesting to watch.

and no, I did not talk about oil.