life...

[crschmidt]

life is interesting. Lots of people in my life right now mean so much to me I can't even tell them at all and it's just nice that I don't even have to because they mostly know.

It's a cold and rainy saturday morning.

US loses an hour tomorrow morning.

Girls not here until around 8-9pm tonight.

Jess and kristan out shopping: should do some code, but don't really feel up to it.

Will probably watch movies this afternoon. Need to send back Farenheit 9/11 and get chicago from netflix. F 9/11 was pure propoganda. Not sure why it got so much hype.

Ooh. Harry Potter book. Order of the Phoenix. I bought it at Alicia' book fair. I read it before, but I've forgotten it. I think that's what I'll spend my morning doing until the females get back.

Comments

[forcemajeure.livejournal.com]

I think people often mistakenly think that Moore's objective was to make a compelling case against Bush that would persuade others to adopt his point of view. I think Moore's real objective was to appear clever, and that everything else -- including the truth -- took a back seat to that.

In addition to the very long list of factual errors in the film -- and Moore's complete disregard for, you know, whether he's telling the truth or not -- I'm bothered that many of Moore's films seem to have this undercurrent of making it okay for his middle-class audience to laugh at poor people.

In the end, I think he has a way of making his audience feel clever -- more clever than their Republican neighbors -- by making himself look clever and by getting the audience to identify with him through his faux-folksy style. This is also why people who don't share his political views aren't persuaded by his films: if you don't agree with Moore, you don't find him clever; you find him condescending.

And I imagine this is why you found the movie short of factual content; such content would slow down the comedy and get in the way of what he's really trying to do.