As an outsider, I have to say that Fahrenheit 9/11 was a big dissapointment, maybe people in general don't read the papers or try to get a balanced view on world events, but as probably more has been written about 9/11 than anything else, there was nothing in this film that was new, or even more damning and dissapointing, that was answered.
I'm afraid that like "The Passion of the Christ" this film will be reviewed, as hard as some may try, based on in this case, one's political leanings, rather than any of it's other merits.
It did start off well, the titles rolling up 12 minutes into the film's opening conspiracy theories were amazing, and somehow the fact that it took 4 odd minutes to display a few names was irrelevant as before us the promise of seeing behind the "show" was laid.
Ultimately what was the outcome? That the war in Iraq wasn't neccessary? I was hoping maybe for some insight into why THEY duped us (money?), or whether, THEY
were duped themselves, but the film hardly bothered to tell us that WMD haven't been found etc, instead concentrating unfairly in my opinion on the terrible grief of one women after the oh-to-recent loss of her Son in Iraq, and that (horror of horrors) the army is mostly made up of people from the poorer parts of society, which I'm sure you'll find it true of most civil servant jobs all over the world.
Where's the controversy in that?
And I found it quite ironic that when the army first came into it, they were shown as mindless thugs, listening to music, as they killed innocent people etc, yet in the end the director used their meaningless deaths as the main collateral (closing point) in his argument.
In the end I ended up paying to watch one person's biased political message and I'm no particular fan of "Dubya" myself
I'm afraid that like "The Passion of the Christ" this film will be reviewed, as hard as some may try, based on in this case, one's political leanings, rather than any of it's other merits.
It did start off well, the titles rolling up 12 minutes into the film's opening conspiracy theories were amazing, and somehow the fact that it took 4 odd minutes to display a few names was irrelevant as before us the promise of seeing behind the "show" was laid.
Ultimately what was the outcome? That the war in Iraq wasn't neccessary? I was hoping maybe for some insight into why THEY duped us (money?), or whether, THEY
were duped themselves, but the film hardly bothered to tell us that WMD haven't been found etc, instead concentrating unfairly in my opinion on the terrible grief of one women after the oh-to-recent loss of her Son in Iraq, and that (horror of horrors) the army is mostly made up of people from the poorer parts of society, which I'm sure you'll find it true of most civil servant jobs all over the world.
Where's the controversy in that?
And I found it quite ironic that when the army first came into it, they were shown as mindless thugs, listening to music, as they killed innocent people etc, yet in the end the director used their meaningless deaths as the main collateral (closing point) in his argument.
In the end I ended up paying to watch one person's biased political message and I'm no particular fan of "Dubya" myself