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Thursday, June 3rd, 2004 06:35 pm (UTC)
"Exploitation" is a hard term to define here. Whatever you or I think, there exists the exact set of motivations that moved Moore to name his movie Farenheight 9/11. Both of us are making educated guesses about his motivation, but they are just that - guesses. Judgement calls.


I have no idea what kind of human being Moore is. I am not sure it matters. I do not know if he is a horrible artist. I do not see him as such, but this is a matter of personal tastes, which, we know, differ. He is controvercial at the mildest. His work has one very important property: he gets his point across. He does not pull his punches.

It all seems to boil down to the question of whether one agrees with his personal politics. I do, at this point of his and my visions of the world. As I mentioned, I will go see it the moment it comes out.

Having said this, I will admit that I do not expect that I will agree with every single aspect of that movie and/or every single point he is making there. At the same time, I do not need Moore to tell me what is going to be wrong with four more years of Bush (for at least two reasons). At the same time, there are other people who might need just that.
Thursday, June 3rd, 2004 07:04 pm (UTC)
Personally I am glad of one thing. That the movie is not called "Exodus". And that I am spared the joy of Moore propagating my own believes.
Friday, June 4th, 2004 08:30 am (UTC)
I might be missing something here... Why are you glad that the movie is not called "Exodous"?

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