Mike opined thusly on Jul 15:
> FAHRENHEIT 9/11
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> The networks took a decision not to show that – it was too real, too
> intrusive. But how strange that Michael Moore lingers on the brutal
> horror of Iraq, yet when it comes to 9/11 he exercises his now famous
> forbearance and blacks it out, a model of restraint. The
> prettification, the artsification, the moviefication of the effect is
> cleverly calculated – because he knows that if he showed us, say, the
> couple holding hands as they plummeted to their deaths he'd risk
> audiences reacting as viscerally as they do to the dead Iraqi kids.
> What Miss Hornaday calls "one of the most moving sequences in recent
> cinemas" is, in fact, an act of evasion.
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A good observation.
- Scott
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