From the previews and comments I have heard ... honestly I was not expecting much, but this movie surprised me, like "Where To Invade Next", it was really excellent.
When I came here to look at the ratings and reviews I was surprised that it was so so low rated, but then all those reviews were before the movie even came out and just right-wing Trump supporters and Republicans coming here and trying to make the movie look bad by dumping low ratings on it.
The movie starts out with a quick rehash of the history of the 2016 election ... which was kind of sad.
What is really interesting is how Michael Moore first reminds us of our American values talking about the polling data of Americans from all over the country. They want public education, they want labor unions, they want healthcare for all, they want free college, they want equal pay for women, they want a strong minumum wage ... and on and on ... and then Mike asked the question ... if so, why don't we have these things like most of the rest of the world?
He goes into shocking details I did not know about the 2016 Democratic Primary and how many states Bernie Sanders overwhelmingly won with the votes of the people, only to have the bought and paid for super-delegates deny their fellow citizens the right to vote by pushing Clinton up even though she did not get the votes. Bernie went ahead and supported the Democratic party and candidate when maybe what he should have done was to blow the whistle on the entire system, but from that point on we know what happened ... the establishment Democrats ignored and turned off their voters and blew the election.
A whole narrative of the story behind the Flint, Michigan lead contamination, and how it was willful crime according to one Water Dept. official who thought Michigan Governor Rick Snyder should be Prosecuted and put in prison. But Moore also drives home the point that the Democratic party is complicit in these crises by showing the jaunt Barack Obama made out to Flint to touch some water from a glass to his lips and try to convince Flint residents the water is fine. Flint residents were heartbroken that their President who they had voted for twice would stab them in the back like that. Trump did basically the same thing. Moore also talked about how Governor Snyder hooked the Ford plant back up the pure water source from Lake Huron, while families were getting poisoned sick and dying in Flint. There was a lot to this story I had never heard about.
The teacher strike in West Virginia and the outrage of both how low teacher pay is, and how they have such a terrible health care program. Part of their teacher's health care program was a requirement that teachers wear a Fit-Bit like device to track their steps and make sure they were getting exercise. If a participant failed to do enough steps they would be fined $500. My jaw hit the floor when I heard this awful story.
Much, much more in this excellent and inspirational movie, and in terms of importance and getting it right, Michael Moore is firing on all cylinders. Go see this movie and take as many people as you can with you - drag them if you have to.
Fahrenheit 11/9 is an important movie for all Americans ... we are on the table in the Emergency Room and if we want to save our country we better wake up and start to do something.
When I came here to look at the ratings and reviews I was surprised that it was so so low rated, but then all those reviews were before the movie even came out and just right-wing Trump supporters and Republicans coming here and trying to make the movie look bad by dumping low ratings on it.
The movie starts out with a quick rehash of the history of the 2016 election ... which was kind of sad.
What is really interesting is how Michael Moore first reminds us of our American values talking about the polling data of Americans from all over the country. They want public education, they want labor unions, they want healthcare for all, they want free college, they want equal pay for women, they want a strong minumum wage ... and on and on ... and then Mike asked the question ... if so, why don't we have these things like most of the rest of the world?
He goes into shocking details I did not know about the 2016 Democratic Primary and how many states Bernie Sanders overwhelmingly won with the votes of the people, only to have the bought and paid for super-delegates deny their fellow citizens the right to vote by pushing Clinton up even though she did not get the votes. Bernie went ahead and supported the Democratic party and candidate when maybe what he should have done was to blow the whistle on the entire system, but from that point on we know what happened ... the establishment Democrats ignored and turned off their voters and blew the election.
A whole narrative of the story behind the Flint, Michigan lead contamination, and how it was willful crime according to one Water Dept. official who thought Michigan Governor Rick Snyder should be Prosecuted and put in prison. But Moore also drives home the point that the Democratic party is complicit in these crises by showing the jaunt Barack Obama made out to Flint to touch some water from a glass to his lips and try to convince Flint residents the water is fine. Flint residents were heartbroken that their President who they had voted for twice would stab them in the back like that. Trump did basically the same thing. Moore also talked about how Governor Snyder hooked the Ford plant back up the pure water source from Lake Huron, while families were getting poisoned sick and dying in Flint. There was a lot to this story I had never heard about.
The teacher strike in West Virginia and the outrage of both how low teacher pay is, and how they have such a terrible health care program. Part of their teacher's health care program was a requirement that teachers wear a Fit-Bit like device to track their steps and make sure they were getting exercise. If a participant failed to do enough steps they would be fined $500. My jaw hit the floor when I heard this awful story.
Much, much more in this excellent and inspirational movie, and in terms of importance and getting it right, Michael Moore is firing on all cylinders. Go see this movie and take as many people as you can with you - drag them if you have to.
Fahrenheit 11/9 is an important movie for all Americans ... we are on the table in the Emergency Room and if we want to save our country we better wake up and start to do something.