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August 02, 2004
Koizumi and F 9/11
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi criticizes Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 for being politically biased.
What? Mike is "politically biased"? I never would have guessed. And I just love it when prominent figures make the news for criticizing something they haven't even seen. (At Cannes this year Jean-Luc Godard received press when he said he didn't like F 9/11 even though he had yet to see the film.)
Posted by brianruh at August 2, 2004 03:26 PM
Comments
. . . so we'll say it again. we like brian ruh's blog. this is good stuff (personally, i thought moore's film was stunning cinema, but failed massively as documentary. he's basically an agit-prop guy. but i hate when he's presented as an objective documentarian [yes . . . yes . . . we know there is no real objectivity . . . thank you althusser], but as derrida said, some readings are better than others and we wonder whether moore's readings are good at all. hrrrrrrmmmmmmm . . . good cinema though).
Posted by: h-chan at August 2, 2004 10:18 PM
Moore misleads, says a lot of glib things, and is woefully inconsistent. I remember in late 2002 he would have voted Kerry out of the Senate because he voted for the war, and now he's forgiving any (Democrat) who did because "they were supposed to believe the president".
Nevertheless, he's got the big picture right, but is getting the whole, nuanced, less slanted big picture too boring for a mass audience? Sadly it's looking that way until the left especially stops being consumed by anger and gets its intellectual f00 back on.
Posted by: Brent Allison at August 5, 2004 09:04 AM