Fahrenheit 9/11 by Amber S. Palmer - Documentary Review

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

Director: Michael Moore
Writer: Michael Moore

The era of political stupidity and American negligence to get rid of the worst President of America, days are coming to a end, this film was created to urge Americans four years ago to make a CHANGE and nobody listened until now. In Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, he uses countless interviews and different perspectives to show the torture George W. Bush has put America through. Moore does a significant job to show dramatic and compassionate images of families suffering the death of a son or daughter in the war. Moore opens the film showing one of the most tragic days in America, 9/11 and as the horrific images of fire and terror grow across the screen, a feeling of incredible sadness and anger come together. I remember seeing this film in the movies and I felt like I knew someone apart of the tragedy, even though I did not. Moore made the audience connect with the tragedy whether you knew a victim or not.

Moore portrays Bush the way the media try not to show Bush as a buffoon with no common sense and without a heart. Clips beyond clips of Bush giving the finger to the camera or to someone during a press conference and detailing the strange relationship he has with the Bin Laden’s. Moore outright tells the audience that Bush sold us to the Bin Laden’s all for the greed of the oil industry. As a commentator, Moore would linger between sarcasm and seriousness, which was cool to use at times but also a bit redundant. For example, Moore spoke to an army recruiter that was standing in front of Walmart’s or Target’s and he tried asking them questions like, would you send your son or daughter to the war? Moore knew he wouldn’t get a legitimate answer but then he would move to this woman who lost her twenty two year old son who dies in the war. Moore tried to bring the film back into an emotional state once the woman started crying. Moore did an excellent job of showing the hypocrisy of how government workers won’t put their own children in the world but yet again could care less about the million lives killed in Iraq over a meaningless war.

Moore also delves into Bushes past with the Texas National Guard and one of the pilots Bush went to school with end up being the head financial manager to the Bin Laden family. Creepy or what? Even though this documentary is not a horror piece but moment-by-moment it sends a chill up your spine to know that a man of this evil caliber is running our country. Surprisingly, Moore didn’t create this film as a source of propaganda as most people thought he would’ve done but instead Moore reveals the man behind the White House, his political ties, education, friends, and his poor handling of his job. Moore doesn’t fall off of the topic, which is George W. Bush, and he provides America with a glimpse of a man who’s created a negative, gigantic domino effect on America’s economy and sanity.