Fahrenheit 11/9 [Blu-ray]

This documentary is not really about Trump. Much of it is about the Flint water crisis, something I am familiar with because I live near there. It's a rather disjointed documentary that jumps from topic to topic, but it's funny and entertaining. Don't look for many objective facts here...he goes for crafting a slanted story that backs his perspective. He just does it in a very entertaining way.The beginning part about the 2016 election and the contrasting election night events and the montage of shocked newscasters as the results came in was very funny. I loved it. I am not sure where he gets some of his "facts," though. Every poll I have ever seen shows that slightly more people believe abortion is morally wrong and want limits on abortion than people who believe abortion is morally okay, yet he claims a statistic of 71% pro-choice...how is he defining "pro-choice"? Anyone who doesn't want abortion totally outlawed or what? That's the sort of slanting that is blatant.As long as viewers don't take everything in the film as objective fact and recognize it as entertainment with an agenda, it's worth a watch.What happened in Flint is horrific, and it outrages me. I think Rick Snyder any anyone else who knew about the problem and did nothing should face criminal charges. What they did (trying to cover up a mistake and hope no one notices rather than immediately trying to fix it) is something I think most politicians do, Democratic and Republican. They want to keep their power and money, not admit to mistakes. But when people's health and lives are at stake, it's SO wrong. It's criminal. FYI, the Flint crisis began when Obama was president, not Trump, so Moore trying to link the crisis to Trump is a stretch. He portrays it as if Snyder and Trump were buddies who planned the whole water thing from the start, but no...So, since most of the documentary is about the Flint crisis...it was NOT the source of the water that was the problem. Going over the details would be somewhat complex, so I get why he simplified it. The water is treated no matter the original source. The contamination came from the pipes, not the water itself...but when Flint was on the Detroit system, a chemical was added to prevent pipe corrosion. After switching off the Detroit system, it was left out. THAT is what started the spiral...the pipes corroded, which bonded the chlorine, making the bacteria free to multiply AND filling the water with lead from the pipes...so more chlorine was added to kill the bacteria, which caused even more corrosion, which released more lead and still allowed the bacteria to multiply...and round and round. Why was the chemical left out? Probably because it was cheaper to leave it out. Money reigns supreme...What outrages me now is that there was an effective program in Flint to replace the old lead pipes. Most of the lead pipes were in poor neighborhoods...and then the politicians got involved and changed the program...now all of the money is going to dig up and check the pipes of the wealthy parts of town to reassure them their water is safe rather than actually replacing the bad pipes in the poor parts of town. It INFURIATES me.I think he used Trump as the "hook" to get people to watch because a lot of people have strong feelings one way or the other about him, and it would get people to watch. But he actual film is about he Flint water crisis, teacher strikes, corruption in the Democratic party, the Parkland shooting in FL, Hitler (a slanted selection of facts, of course), and the like.I had not seen Obama's speech in Flint before, and WHAT a stupid stunt to pretend to drink the water or take maybe a tiny sip and then talk about how he probably ate lead paint as a toddler...WHAT? That is probably slanted, too, but wow...it works. And then the army training in Flint WITHOUT WARNING ANYONE FIRST??? I am sure that wasn't the president's decision directly, though. It was likely some general somewhere. Moore tries to imply this was all part of Obama's actions...an effective, entertaining slant, but not objective fact.Moore has an agenda, he crafts his movie and information to push that agenda, and he entertains int he process. He is good at what he does. As long as viewers think critically and don't take the movie as factual and objective, it's fine.

This is not the title DVD. I was expecting the DVD fatenheit 911.About the pulling down of the twin towers. The video I watched while in Iraq which turned my stomach in 2006About the idiocyncrisies on the destruction of the towers. It's about Trump.

Michael Moore is liberal, sure. But, the ideas he expresses in the film are worthy of discussion. Moore begins his film discussing how Trump was given only a 15% chance of winning and why his win was so surprising. (Actually, Moore was one of the few liberals that said that Trump had a real chance of winning.) Then, Moore suggests that America is a liberal country (using data from polls, for example: 71% of Americans are pro-choice, 82% want equal pay for women, 74% want stronger environmental laws, etc.)One important aspect of the film is that Moore doesn't criticizes only Trump or the Republican Party of threatening the American democracy. He tries to convince the viewer of how the Democratic Party Primary in 2016 favored Hillary Clinton and how many votes were taken away from Bernie Sanders (this is obviously debatable, but that's his view in the film).What we could consider the "third act" of the documentary is the Flint Water Crisis. Moore uses that crisis as an example of how the political system ignore some important problems in the nation. This was one of the most important parts of the film.Finally, Moore sustains that both the Democratic and Republican Parties are tied to lobbyists and money from big companies. Also, he accurately says that Obama is the President that has deported more illegal immigrants, but said that his campaign took more money from Goldman Sachs than from any other contributor, which is false. Goldman Sachs was the second largest Obama's contributor. (But, we should be honest and recognize that Obama impose a lot of rules to banks and signed laws to protect customers.)From my point of view, it was a good and realistic documentary. It should be noted that I disagree with certain ideas that Moore expresses. For example, he blames Democrats for compromising too much to Republicans. I strongly believe that achieving consensus and compromising is necessary in a democracy. Also, it's true what Moore says: in the last 7 general elections (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016), Democrats have won the Popular Vote in 6 elections. But, what Moore suggests is that Democrats should be the ones governing America. I'm a Centrist Democrat (I voted for Clinton, not Bernie Sanders) and I strongly believes that having only one all powerful party is detrimental to democracy. We need a strong Democratic Party and a strong Republican Party.

Having now viewed all of Michael Moore’s film documentaries, I am of the view that this is both his most insightful and important work. It was publicised as Moore’s “most powerful film yet”. This is also true. It is further stated that Fahrenheit 11/9 is a “provocative and comedic” look at the times in which we live. The film is, as always with Moore, certainly provocative; however, there is a distinct lack of comedy in Fahrenheit 11/9, and that is much to the film’s advantage. There are times in the productions of Michael Moore where the producer almost parodies himself. Not this time. This is a serious and extraordinary insight into the times in which we live, and into the lives of many that have lived them - particularly in the USA.The title of the movie, Fahrenheit 11/9 is a straightforward, yet clever and meaningful, reference to his 2004 documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11. The previous film focused on the inner circle of George W. Bush’s government, the destruction of the twin towers in New York, and the USA’s headlong rush into the war in Afghanistan. That film “generated controversy and political debate like no other film in memory.” That was until now.Fahrenheit 11/9, in exploring “the two most important questions of the Trump era”, asks questions every bit as direct and important as any in the 2004 film. The first question: How did the USA arrive at its present situation? The second question follows from the first: How does the USA overcome its present situation?In seeking to provide answers to these questions, Moore probes several situations that occurred in the USA during the Trump period of government, and the lead-up to that period. Moore returns to his hometown of Flint, Michigan, to investigate the link between the lead poisoning of the city’s water supply and corruption in the State governor’s office under a Republican governor. He gets close to Alabama school students protesting the shooting of their classmates in a major incident during the presidency of Donald Trump. Moore covers the 2016 elections in the USA, showing back-to-back the differing campaigns, personalities and appeals of the major political figures. This coverage has its controversies, casualties, and consequences. So too, it clearly reveals the side of American politics that Michael Moore is on (not that Moore has ever sought to hide the fact).Moore’s perspectives seem to focus on a variety of social, economic, and political realities in the USA. These include the level of corruption in American political and personal life; the economic and social chasm between the wealthy and the poor in American society; as well as impressive footage of what can happen when the strength of student voices is translated into action when students combine their forces and resources. Moore is no respecter of persons, so along the way Moore seeks to counter what he considers to be the apparent misconceptions about political figures, as well as the controversial political strategies used by the political campaigners during the lead-up to the 2016 elections in the USA. Included in this analysis is historical footage of the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in pre-WW2 Germany. Moore also comments on the accusations of misogyny, racism, and class prejudices in politicians, and American culture generally.One, perhaps the most insightful and instructive of Moore’s major conclusions, is the belief that Americans are trying to live an ideal, the "American Ideal", that has never been realised! It is a country that is divided and, in parts, broken. This is, however, just one of the many informative, interesting, even challenging, aspects of the production under review. The publicity for Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 states that it is “unmissable”. This reviewer would unhesitatingly agree. Highly recommended.

A fine film by Michael Moore, but disturbing. Supposed good guy Obama paying "lip service" to poisoned water, not once but twice was a "highlight". As a film, I can easily recommend it. Moore`s easy style makes it all come alive.

Michael Moore excellent work

I watched this on Pay per view and then bought it to share with Friends. It's not all about Trump but it's a good overview and well done. As Rotten Tomatoes says "Its a film to see before it's TOO LATE".