Ok, I went and saw Fahrenheit 911 yesterday. I went to see it at the Century 20 close to my house and was surprised it was only in 1 theater, it ended up being the biggest theater they had fitting several hundred people. People were linned up with their tickets to get in, the line went on forever, people were waiting for an least on hour on line. The line went through the entire movie theater, only breaking around a vending station, then around some more, out the firedoors onto the roof and a good way around the building outside. After the movie, I left the theater to see the same line going out the firedoors again.
I tried to go with an open and critical mind. It was more than I was expecting. I went in expecting a political documentary and I laughed my ass off. The laughter was eruptive througout the theater and would rival any blockbuster comedy. The film was well made, witty and just great fun. The bonanza sequence was great, 'smoke em out!' The part about ashcroft being beat by a dead guy, then getting appointed by bush was done so well. The coalition of the willing bit was hysterical. The many candid bush moments make for great movie watching, it he wasn't leading the country and was actually trying to be funny, he could win an oscar for comedy.
At other points in the movie, it was utterly heart renching. The women in Iraq screaming and the mother from Michigan who lost her son in Iraq reduced most people to tears.
Other parts made me feel upset, disturbed or downright angry at the blanant, open, outright corruption and selling out of the american people and our country for nothing more than money buy bush, his family and his cohorts. The parts about the breast milk not being allowed on an airplane, the peace frensno group getting infiltrated by the police and the guy from gym getting investigated by the FBI for saying bush attacked Iraq for oil made me particularly angry. The patriot act is the biggest bunch of bullshit ever and has infuriated me for the past few years it has been in existense. In you are interested in learning more or how you can do more, please visit http://www.eff.org or http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism/PATRIOT/ specifically
On the other side of the coin, I did find one or two failings in the movie. Although the part about the coalition of the willing was very funny and most of the countries in it had no army whatsoever, there was a few that did have actual armies and did send troops, Britain and Australia and both were left off the list, making it seem like only random, small and uninfluential countries contributed. Granted, the troops sent were a fraction of the US troops involved, but it would have nice to have the list complete and factual. Here is some interesting numbers on that actually - http://www.areporter.com/sys-tmpl/thecoalitionofthewilling/
This was a brilliant piece of film, tying so much that needed to be said in one concise work. Go see it if you want a great laugh, a good cry and a bit of sobering up.
SD