Disclaimer: In no way, shape, or form is this article anti-Kerry or anti-Bush. This article is a review and opinion about the movie Fahrenheit 9/11.
I don’t know who to vote for. My mind hasn’t been set on either Bush or Kerry. This is before and after watching Fahrenheit 9/11.
I just wanted to let everyone know that in no way am I saying to vote Kerry. This is just my review on what I saw in Fahrenheit 9/11 and the belief of many people about the movie.
From the start this movie got a bad reputation. From the start people were calling Michael Moore an anti-American.
And from the start Disney, who owns Miramax, backed the making of this film. That was, of course, until they knew what the film was REALLY going to be about. Then on May 5, Disney prohibited Miramax from distributing Fahrenheit.
Disney said (according to Moore on his web site in which he addresses a letter that Disney sent him) “the movie might ‘endanger’ the millions of dollars of tax breaks Disney receives from the state of Florida because the film will “anger” the Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush.”
Disney and Miramax had a clash over a movie a while ago with Kevin Smith’s Dogma.
Miramax, mainly Harvey and Bob Weinstein, stood by Smith and his movie with Miramax handling the marketing while Lions Gate Film handling the distributing.
Again Miramax stood by the movie and Moore, thus a clash with Disney and Miramax began.
A week later, however, Disney allowed Miramax to buy back the rights of Fahrenheit and looked for another company to handle the movie. Just like with the case of Dogma, Harvey and Bob went to Lions Gate Film, who took over in place of Disney. Fahrenheit 9/11 then went on to make $216,114,517 worldwide and became the No. 1 documentary of all time.
All Moore is trying to do is give you the truth. True facts on what Bush was doing before and after 9/11.
He shows you how 9/11 could have been prevented and how Americans act during the war in Iraq, which never attacked us until we attacked them. Is it Moore’s fault for point these facts out? I guess so.
Moore is telling a story of how America was doomed from the start with Bush. Moore doesn’t do it with cheap shots or finger pointing; he does it with cold hard facts.
He shows us that when the second plane attacked, Bush was in a classroom reading My Pet Goat.
Instead of rushing to the aid of Americans, or rushing out to come up with a plan of his own, Bush sits there with an almost lost and confused look on his face. Or as Moore put it, maybe he was running in his head all the scenarios that could have led to this even, including a vacation he took after only eight months in the office.
Moore also portrays the relationship between the Bushes (That’s both father and son) and powerful Saudis.
He sheds light on how the Bushes received $1.8 billion in Saudi money, for the Bushes enterprises.
Did you know that Bush and the White House arranged flights for the bin Laden family out of the U.S.? The bin Laden family was in the U.S. before and after 9/11 and yet Bush let them go. Why didn’t he question them on the whereabouts of the Osama?
Fahrenheit also examines Bush’s military records. Moore, who had an original copy of Bush’s records, noticed that when Bush released his version of the records, a name was blacked out. The name belongs to a close friend of Bush, James R. Bath. Bath was also known for being the Texas money manager for the billionaire bin Laden family.
Moore shows American soldiers who are in Iraq raiding homes at night and taking innocent men away from there homes, putting bags over their heads and taking them back to camp.
They are touching the womens’ shoulders and backing them into a different room. In tradition of Iraq, no man is to lay hands on a woman besides her husband .
Back at camp, the soldiers make fun of the innocent men calling them names and touching the men’s genitals.
I could go on and on about how Fahrenheit 9/11 shows that Bush may have handled things the wrong way. It also shows that Bush may be trying to hide something, but that you would have to judge for yourself.
In no way does Moore ever say “I hate America” or anything to that extent. Moore was showing Americans how Bush handled things wrong and how he has the facts to prove it.
But it’s not only Moore who is saying this. Take the mother who was for Bush at the beginning of this movie and what happens to her. Or how a solider said he’d rather go to jail than to go back to Iraq kill innocent people.
Fahrenheit 9/11 is not an anti-Bush movie, hard as that may be to grasp. It is not about how we are killing innocent people in Iraq, who never did anything to us.
Moore is trying to show Americans the truth and the result of Bush’s actions.
The truth may or may not want to be heard by some people, but it is the truth.
What’s the truth? There may be more to Sept. 11 than a terrorist attack.
More than we will ever know.

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