Michael Moore Hates America

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Movie
German title Michael Moore Hates America
Original title Michael Moore Hates America
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 125 minutes
Rod
Director Michael Wilson
script Michael Wilson
production Michael Wilson,
Curt Johnson ,
Christopher Ohlsen
music Curt Johnson
cut Greg Browning
occupation

Michael Moore Hates America is an American documentary directed by Michael Wilson about the filmmaker Michael Moore . The film criticizes various aspects of Michael Moore and his documentaries.

Michael Moore Hates America was first shown on September 12, 2004 in Dallas at the American Film Renaissance , a film festival considered politically conservative .

content

The film begins with a criticism of Michael Moore's alleged lack of patriotism. Moore is quoted as saying in an interview: "That's the worst thing you can do, to become like America" ​​( This is the worst thing you can do : to become like America ). He is accused of self-loathing and excessive self-esteem. When Michael Moore and Michael Wilson later meet, they accuse each other of hating America.

Penn Jillette makes another point of criticism: He believes Michael Moore believes that the end justifies the means; That is, he gives his political convictions a higher priority than a balanced and fair presentation of problems.

Michael Moore Hates America takes up scenes from Moore's films (especially Roger & Me and Bowling for Columbine ) and shows manipulative passages: Several speeches by Charlton Heston were cut together so that the viewer gets the impression that it is only one specific speech - namely the one after the Columbine massacre . In another scene from Bowling for Columbine , Michael Moore enters a bank where there is a gun as a gift for opening a bank account. He picks a rifle and triumphantly leaves the bank with the gun in his hands. As those involved make clear in an interview with Wilson, the weapons issue in the bank only happened at the request of Michael Moore. He vehemently denies having used manipulative methods in his film.

In order to get an interview with city manager Pete Auger, Wilson finally uses a lie himself. However, the film describes how Penn Jillette convinced him that it would make him what he was criticizing. Wilson then apologized in writing to Auger.

Another point of criticism is that Moore allegedly does not offer any solutions to the questions raised and thus causes resignation in the American population.

During the film, Wilson is shown trying to get an interview date with Michael Moore (similar to how Moore tries to get an interview with Roger Smith in Roger & Me ). Michael Moore wasn't ready to give an interview.

Awards

Michael Moore Hates America was nominated for the Audience Award in the category "Best Documentary" at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival 2005.

Similar films

  • Manufacturing Dissent : A similar film, though the focus is less on a lack of national pride and more on inconsistencies in Moore's portrayal.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See “ America's right-wing shoots back - Moore im Kreuzfeuer ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. " @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kino-zeit.de
  2. ↑ Awards at imdb.org
  3. ↑ " Left criticism can also go wrong " at taz.de.

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