Fahrenheit 9/11

Today, mercury hit a new mark on the Fahrenheit scale, obviously Ray Bradbury is pissed and so are a lot of others. Today, I realized why United States of America still retains the title "the land of the free and home of the brave" (this film getting made and released proves it). Today, Michael Moore, yes that opinionated jerk, propagandist liberal, manipulator of facts, self-appointed soul keeper of American politics had his movie Fahrenheit 9/11 released nationwide. Today I saw this "liberal" movie in a theatre bursting at the seams in a city, which till now I had considered a red-neck haven (my bad) and to add to my surprise the red necks followed it up with a standing ovation when the titles came rolling in.

About the film : Don't go anywhere near it if you are a hard nosed conservative, you might embark on a shooting spree at the theater itself, in order to cleanse the world of those mindless idiots who fall for all this over-the-top sentimental mis-information. Otherwise the movie shows a world of improvement in Mr.Moore's talent as a film-maker(some'd say propagandist), better than Roger and Me and Bowling for Columbine. If it had an OST I'd buy it, loved all the songs! Its easy to accuse Moore of concocting evidence. But if you could really read the evidence in the first place, Florida and later Iraq would not have happened, and Michael Moore would still be the little known fat guy munching on a dough nut at some unheard of street corner at Flint, Michigan still dreaming of making a movie that'd rock America and get the longest standing ovation (20 mins) in the history of Cannes!

p.s - in one of the earliest books on war games -the Mahabharata, Sri Krishna(the in-house spin doctor) advises Yudhistira (the good guy king), "a lie told for the greater good of humanity ceases to be a lie." Yeah all is fair in love and war.