A slightly less subjective documentary from Michael Moore finds the filmmaker's totally justifiable rage at Bush II being vented. Moore decided to back off on this one and let the subject speak for itself, although some of his own narration I think weakens the effort. The blaring gaffes of the Bush administration do not need any accompaniment to be utterly shocking. Nothing in the film was so "un-American" that it couldn't have been said in the pages of the New York Times, from the disillusionment of the troops in Iraq to the incestuous Halliburton-Cheney relationship. Moore does not overtly extrapolate the problems presented into any kind of class analysis, which I believe is absolutely essential in any critique of the oppression and exploitation which is exemplified here. However, there are a few guarded attempts to recognize the class issue, as when Moore stops back in his hometown and lets the oppressed, subordinated, and underprivileged people in Flint, Michigan question the rationale of fighting a war in Iraq when there is a very real war being waged on the poor of the United States. Also, there was the very powerful statement by a corporal who declared he would rather face prison time than to go back to Iraq to "kill more poor people." In this statement, all debate about the war is reasonably, succinctly settled.
Review of Fahrenheit 9/11
