{"id":2631,"date":"2018-09-27T20:55:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T20:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2020-04-27T18:03:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T18:03:01","slug":"farenheit-11-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/farenheit-11-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Fahrenheit 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u201cHow. The f**k. Did we get here. And how. The f**k. Do we get out?\u201d Michael Moore\u2019s movie gets chuckles, snickers and chills after hearing the award-winning Documentarian pose those 2 questions in a soft, slow, deliberate voice from the start. He\u2019s talking about Donald Trump\u2019s Presidency. There\u2019s plenty of this but without as much footage of Donald Trump as we expected. Moore covers many other issues here, too!<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s title, Fahrenheit 11\/9, refers back to Moore\u2019s 2004 Fahrenheit 9\/11 documentary exploring the causes of the Iraq War and the World Trade Center attack. The swap in the date takes us to the day in 2016 that Trump was elected. Moore\u2019s believes these two days are historically tragic.<\/p>\n

He places blame for Trump\u2019s political ascendancy at the feet of singer Gwen Stefani of all people! Moore posits that when Trump learned NBC was paying her more to be a judge on \u201cThe Voice\u201d than he received for \u201cThe Apprentice,\u201d he staged his Trump Tower escalator ride to announce his candidacy. He wanted to show the network what a REAL celebrity looked like, complete with paid shills to cheer him on. Actually running and winning was never part of the plan.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”2636″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”2638″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”2640″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Moore targets The Electoral College as one puzzle piece that continues to deny Americans true democracy. He shows that this vestige of Slave Era compromise has turned the White House over to the popular vote loser time and time again.<\/p>\n

Moore chooses to take a scatter-shot approach bouncing to a variety of issues. First up? The Flint lead-in-the-water crisis. Flint, Moore\u2019s hometown, was the locale for his first big splash, Roger and Me, about the G.M. chairman, Roger Smith, and the the greed that put thousands of Flint workers on the street. Here, the target is Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and his denial of the crisis that poisoned thousands of Flint residents. They were forced to drink horrifically polluted water while he re-routed clean water to the G.M. plant to keep it from rotting auto parts so that it could remain solvent.<\/p>\n

There is disturbing footage of President Barack O\u2019Bama visiting Flint. He tries to show that the water is now good by calling for a glass and drinking it. Moore\u2019s shows graphically, not once, but twice, that President Obama\u2019s lips were the only things that touched the water. He did not take one sip.<\/p>\n

Moore likes to use Guerrilla tactics as centerpieces of his narrative, and this film has a doozy. It\u2019s brilliant. He fills up a water tanker, driving it to Governor Snyder\u2019s residence and watering his trees with Flint\u2019s finest tainted H2O. We were hoping for a before and after shot to see what it did to the trees, or an angry reaction from the Governor, but it was not there. Missed opportunity for the film, but still highly amusing.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”2639″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”2633″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”2634″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]\n

Moore also shows up at the Governor Snyder\u2019s office with handcuffs to make a citizens\u2019 arrest and offers a glass of Flint water to the Governor\u2019s press flack. The tactics seem over-played and somewhat trite, but still get the desired laughs. These re-routes, however, make us wonder what this all has to do with his original questions. Moore tries to tie them together with his theory that Trump\u2019s prime directive is more profit and ultimate consolidation of power.<\/div>\n
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His masterful editing of the historical footage and his use of satire to expose the dictator President is reminiscent of film giants like Charlie Chaplin in \u201cThe Great Dictator.\u201d When Hitler appears on screen mouthing Trump\u2019s words in Trump\u2019s voice, it\u2019s a powerful and disturbing scene that confirms Michael Moore is always willing to tap in a nail with a jack hammer.<\/div>\n
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These comparisons of Trump to 1930\u2019s Germany are not original, but he knows these scenes will enrage the Trump Base and confirm the beliefs of the Left. This cautionary note becomes scarier when Moore shows headlines and editorials written by German Jews and translated in the movie dismissing Hitler\u2019s anti-Semitism with a \u201cDon\u2019t worry, once he\u2019s in power he\u2019ll never do those terrible things\u201d shrug.<\/div>\n
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Moore plays the archival articles next to scenes of ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos and guests laughing uproariously at the notion Trump could win the White House. Then a prescient shot of now disgraced Les Moonves admitting the wall-to-wall coverage of Trump \u201cmay not be good for America, but it\u2019s darn good for CBS\u201d cements how we got here.<\/div>\n
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Moore can\u2019t resist the urge to portray Trump\u2019s kinkier inclinations, especially towards daughter Ivanka when asked on a talk-show what he has in common with her and all he can think to say is, \u201cI was going to say \u2018sex\u2019.\u201d<\/div>\n
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He also ventures into the gun control issue with an extended examination of the Parkland school shootings and the emerging activism of youth. Are their voices still being heard? Moore doesn\u2019t flush that out. While these are important issues, they all distract from the main focus of this documentary.<\/div>\n
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Moore\u2019s conclusion, is that Trump and his base are not only on the wrong side of history, but today\u2019s America. He projects that America has become a \u201cLeftist\u201d nation based on polls reflecting attitudes toward health care, gun-control and even labor unions, as evidenced by the teacher strike in West Virginia, which he uses as another long detour in the film.<\/div>\n
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Ultimately, Moore\u2019s conviction that all we have to do is keep speaking truth to power, and time will do the rest, not only fails as a satisfying conclusion to this movie, it simply adds to the hopelessness and depression many seem to be feeling, first thing in the morning, checking out national news.<\/div>\n
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