What Goes Around Comes Around
I find this hilarious. It validates my judgment to myself. I was thinking of making a documentary about Michael Moore, showing his hypocrisy, and voila, a pair of liberals beat me to it. Of course, they didn't mean to be negative. They practically worship the guy. Still, his duplicity shines through their film.
Documentary questions Moore's tactics - Yahoo! News: By Christy Lemire, AP Movie Writer.
AUSTIN, Texas - As documentary filmmakers, Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine looked up to Michael Moore.Then they tried to do a documentary of their own about him — and ran into the same sort of resistance Moore himself famously faces in his own films.
The result is "Manufacturing Dissent," which turns the camera on the confrontational documentarian and examines some of his methods. Among their revelations in the movie, which had its world premiere Saturday night at the South by Southwest film festival: That Moore actually did speak with then-General Motors chairman Roger Smith, the evasive subject of his 1989 debut Roger & Me, but chose to withhold that footage from the final cut.
The husband-and-wife directors spent over two years making the movie, which follows Moore on his college tour promoting 2004's Fahrenheit 9/11. The film shows Melnyk repeatedly approaching Moore for an interview and being rejected; members of Moore's team also kick the couple out of the audience at one of his speeches, saying they weren't allowed to be shooting there.
You can read the full article to get all the details. The point is, Michael Moore's whole reason for making the documentary Roger and Me was that Roger (Roger Smith) supposedly was inaccessible, and wouldn't meet with Moore. Whoops! I guess Mr. Moore wasn't entirely honest was he? His other documentaries are just as full of holes, as is Mr. Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
Great Editing
Left-wing documentaries, and organizations for that matter, are like this. They are propaganda pieces designed to inflame people and set up fundraising for pet projects. Gore's got the whole world scared. Hollywood continues to honor people like Moore and Gore. I'd rather have "more gore," Hollywood horror movies, than anything Moore and Gore manufacture. I will see their movies, because they are entertaining. I feel bad about them, though, because they masquerade as truth, and people believe them.
We ought to have a board of Truth that looks into the validity of the claims of documentaries, including left- and right-wing films. After all, you can lie with pictures, photos, and interviews. It all depends on the editing. If you're Michael Moore you just leave out the fact that you did meet with Roger. If you're Gore, you leave out the scientists who don't believe that global warming is as bad as he says it is.
Leftists are great editors.
Rock
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One other concern I might have would be the effect of making this film on the young actress, Dakota Fanning. She is, after all, a child. It appears, though, that this child is special. She is 12 going on 40. She seems to be one of the most levelheaded children in Hollywood, and she is vigorously and articulately defending the movie and her role, as if she were Erin Brockovich. So, I'm not really concerned about Dakota, and I think she can handle it.
Prurience
Let's say, for the sake of argument, though, that the film did offer prurient interest centered on the sexuality of a child. Other message films have actually done this with older children, as in Larry Clark's 2001 film Bully, and his 1995 Kids.
In Bully, for example, the young girls are shown nude often, even going to the bathroom, and in several hot sex scenes. It is decidedly prurient. Yet it offers a message. Bad behavior gets punished.
My take, again, though, is that I don't want these films censored. I think censorship is usually wrong. I judge that in a free society we ought to be able to make and see what we want. Again, I do approve of the ratings system, so that young folks don't see adult material.
With any movie that crosses the line into child pornography, there are laws to deal with this, and here I do approve of censorship.
Zoo
Which leads me to the documentary about bestiality, which is called Zoo, a film about men who have sex with horses. Sounds pretty sick, no? Yet, here is its description:
Documentary on bestiality premieres at Sundance Film Festival: South Florida Sun-Sentinel:
Again, I'm an artsy-fartsy type guy, so they've got me curious with this description. Plus, I don't want this thing censored. If it's pornography, then label it as such, and let it be shown as such, with a suitable rating. Evidently, though, it's not pornography.