Fahrenheit 911 wins Palme d’Or at Canne
The Guardian reports that Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 911″ has won the Palme d’Or at the Canne film festival, and that this might change the world:
This was the year that Cannes flexed its muscles - and France flexed its muscles, too. Michael Moore’s anti-Bush movie Fahrenheit 911 is the first documentary to win the Palme d’Or since Jacques Cousteau’s The Silent World in 1956. The festival hung a garland on Moore for his scathing denunciation of the President’s dubious democratic credentials, the Bush family connections with the Bin Ladens and the diversionary war on Iraq. It was a spectacular rebuke to Republican and corporate America, a stunning exocet of scorn launched from the epicentre of old Europe.
Left wing lies get awards and praise from the Guardian, whilst right wing lies are the end of civilisation as we know it. Hmmm, strange that …
Hi John,
I find Mike Moore to be a bit of a git, but still, I respect his right to come out and give his point of view. I’ll go and see this film and I’ll cheer when he lands a good one on Bush.
I have no objection to his having a point of view, Graeme, or to his putting it on film. However there is a large body of evidence which would suggest that he is extremely selective in his choice of “facts”, chronology etc. Again, if he was making fiction this would be no problem; unfortunately he is purporting to make documentaries which, by definition, are meant to be objectively factual (as far as possible, of course). His are not. He uses the tragedies of others to advance his own agenda in a way that is not dissimilar to those he targets (Charlton Heston, George W. Bush etc.). His canonisation by many on the left may indicate that they are not too bothered about truth, as long as their favourite targets are peppered.
BTW. I like the newish design of your blog. Very clear.