This movie shows blatantly the all importance of free speech and the panicky fear of the powerful for it. Free speech can (and should) reveal inconvenient truths (the 'real world'), and it could (should) effectively undermine the power base of vested interests. That is also the reason why those vested interests control nearly all media outlets.
In this movie, those in power (local business interests) were trying by ALL means to prevent a speech (only that!) at a college hall by a democrat (also Democrat), in the person of movie director and social agitator Michael Moore. They were afraid that he could influence public opinion (an overwhelming majority for the RP) and change the political majority and its agenda, although the chances were practically inexistent.
As Saint Augustine said: 'Men love truth when it bathes them in its light; they hate it when it proves them wrong.'
This movie is a must see for all those who want to understand the world we live in.
In this movie, those in power (local business interests) were trying by ALL means to prevent a speech (only that!) at a college hall by a democrat (also Democrat), in the person of movie director and social agitator Michael Moore. They were afraid that he could influence public opinion (an overwhelming majority for the RP) and change the political majority and its agenda, although the chances were practically inexistent.
As Saint Augustine said: 'Men love truth when it bathes them in its light; they hate it when it proves them wrong.'
This movie is a must see for all those who want to understand the world we live in.