I saw "Fahrenheit 9/11" Sunday night. Including ticket, fandango surcharge,
gas, viewing and travel time this movie probably cost me about $12 and 3
hours of my life. I'd like them back.
The movie is a long opinon piece, condemning George W Bush, his family, his
friends, their ties to big business, and their ties to leading Saudi
Arabian families including the bin Laden family.
It shows Bush is incompetent and corrupt. Well, Duh... I mostly avoid
politics, and even I already knew that.
I think there are strong George W. Bush supporters, strong Bush opposers,
people who refuse to care about politics at all, and a lot of people in
between. This movie will be denounced (usually without viewing) by his
supporters. It will be preaching to the choir for the opposers (like me).
It will be ignored by the truely apolitical. However, the mass of people
in the middle somewhere, who's minds are not already made up, may find it
informative.
The movie's approach is more emotional than factual. A friend suggested
it's purpose is to enrage people into political activism, or at least
voting, against Bush. However, it does include a number of facts,
perhaps for use in arguements with Bush's supporters.
Among other things, it states Bush received a report, prior to 9/11, about
Osama bin Laden putting his people through flight school. It warned they
would try to use airplanes for terrorist acts. The movie also states 24 of
bin Laden's family were quietly flown out of the US on 9/13, while all
other flights were grounded. This was authorized at the "highest levels"
of the administration. The movie describes years of business partnerships
between the Bush family and the bin Laden family.
The movie convincingly suggests the Iraq war was manufactured to generate
more business for defense contractors partially owned by Bush's family.
One thing I really disliked in the film, was a sense that the director was
tring to emotionally manipulate both the audience and his sources in
pursuit of his attack on Bush. Perhaps the worst example in the movie was
the filmmaker's abuse of the woman who's son died in a helicopter crash.
She needed therapy and medication, not to be dragged through all that on
camera. He also spent far too much screen time on her, in a movie that was
already too long. He could have, and should have, cut about 20 minutes.
gas, viewing and travel time this movie probably cost me about $12 and 3
hours of my life. I'd like them back.
The movie is a long opinon piece, condemning George W Bush, his family, his
friends, their ties to big business, and their ties to leading Saudi
Arabian families including the bin Laden family.
It shows Bush is incompetent and corrupt. Well, Duh... I mostly avoid
politics, and even I already knew that.
I think there are strong George W. Bush supporters, strong Bush opposers,
people who refuse to care about politics at all, and a lot of people in
between. This movie will be denounced (usually without viewing) by his
supporters. It will be preaching to the choir for the opposers (like me).
It will be ignored by the truely apolitical. However, the mass of people
in the middle somewhere, who's minds are not already made up, may find it
informative.
The movie's approach is more emotional than factual. A friend suggested
it's purpose is to enrage people into political activism, or at least
voting, against Bush. However, it does include a number of facts,
perhaps for use in arguements with Bush's supporters.
Among other things, it states Bush received a report, prior to 9/11, about
Osama bin Laden putting his people through flight school. It warned they
would try to use airplanes for terrorist acts. The movie also states 24 of
bin Laden's family were quietly flown out of the US on 9/13, while all
other flights were grounded. This was authorized at the "highest levels"
of the administration. The movie describes years of business partnerships
between the Bush family and the bin Laden family.
The movie convincingly suggests the Iraq war was manufactured to generate
more business for defense contractors partially owned by Bush's family.
One thing I really disliked in the film, was a sense that the director was
tring to emotionally manipulate both the audience and his sources in
pursuit of his attack on Bush. Perhaps the worst example in the movie was
the filmmaker's abuse of the woman who's son died in a helicopter crash.
She needed therapy and medication, not to be dragged through all that on
camera. He also spent far too much screen time on her, in a movie that was
already too long. He could have, and should have, cut about 20 minutes.
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hrlyquinn:
Tthose are only application pictures. They're just supposed to show my personality so I'm not really worried about making them horribly interesting. I think the bottom line is there are too many girls applying. I've decided not to apply again for that reason and because too many have already been accepted. It's no longer a special thing to be an SG. It was special when there were 150-200 Girls. As of today, there are 374. At this point, I think it would feel like I was simply putting naked pictures of myself up on the internet for the hell of it, not to be a part of something awesome. Make sense?
hrlyquinn:
Where are you??? 