Where to Invade Next
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| German title | Where to Invade Next |
| Original title | Where to Invade Next |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 120 minutes |
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| Director | Michael Moore |
| script | Michael Moore |
| production | Michael Moore Carl Deal Tia Lessin |
| camera | Richard Rowley Jayme Roy |
| cut | Pablo Proenza Todd Woody Richman Tyler H. Walk |
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Where to Invade Next ( English "should Where to come up with next" for) is a documentary film of the American director and political activist Michael Moore from the year 2015 . The film is told in the style of a travel diary. Moore visits other countries such as Finland , Italy , France , Germany and Portugal , where he investigates how social problems and issues can be solved differently than in the USA.
content
Moore opens the film with a fictional story; he had been ordered to the Pentagon and there the chiefs of the general staff told him about their hopelessness: The USA had not won a war since the Second World War and instead only wasted billions of US dollars. They would have asked Moore for his advice. Moore would have suggested that they should take the troops on leave and instead send him out into the world to “occupy” countries and “steal” their ideas and values in order to ultimately solve US problems “that no army can solve ". This is followed by a video collage depicting some of the US's social and economic problems, partly underlaid with recordings from speeches by US presidents with reference to invasions and / or terrorism.
Then Moore sets off on his “invasion” and reports on various topics with a focus on working conditions and quality of life, education policy and equality, penal execution and prosecution as well as forms of protest and social values. In detail, these are the following countries and topics:
- Italy: Workers' rights (paid leave, 13th month salary, maternity leave, parental leave), work-life balance and life expectancy
- France: school meals, tax burden and sex education
- Finland: education policy (few lessons, hardly any homework, no standardized tests) and ideal of education
- Slovenia: free higher education and student protests
- Germany: Working conditions, work-life balance, rehabilitation measures and employee representatives on supervisory boards as well as coming to terms with the past
- Portugal: Labor Day , drug policy, the prison system (prison inmates' right to vote and to work), and the abolition of the death penalty and human dignity as the greatest good
- Norway: non-violent prison system with a focus on rehabilitation and Norway's handling of the Anders Behring Breivik attacks
- Tunisia: Support with family planning, equal rights for women and cultural openness
- Iceland: Equality for women and the positive influence of women in management positions and prosecution of bankers in the context of the Icelandic financial crisis 2008-2011
Finally, Moore and Rod Birleson visited a remnant piece of the Berlin Wall at the Topography of Terror Documentation Center in Berlin. They talk about their experiences during the days of the fall of the Berlin Wall - when they happened to be at the Berlin Wall - and sum up that even things that are believed to always exist can pass in one night. In the end, Moore points out that “the American dream is alive everywhere except America” and that all the ideas he had taken with him from his “invasions” were actually American ideas.
publication
Where to Invade Next premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film had its US premiere at the New York Film Festival on October 2, 2015.
criticism
The film received mostly positive reviews in the USA. The Rotten Tomatoes website , which evaluates reviews, gave a positive rate of 76% (based on 62 reviews). The film made it onto the shortlist for Oscar nominees (best documentary).
Frank Schnelle from epd Film describes the film:
“Michael Moore researches what Europeans do better than Americans. And once again proves to be an entertaining black and white painter. [...] His goals are deliberately chosen so that they each function as ideal (and idealized) counter-drafts for the American status quo - a didactic cherry-picking that is less focused on accurate presentation than on a (enjoyable) lesson. "
The Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung called Where to Invade Next , regardless of how you feel about Moore's polemical infotainment, as the director's worst film. It is about "an aggressive all-round blow against the USA, which is humorously disguised, but is just plain stupid". Any arbitrary example is fine with him, no cliché is too cheap, the whole thing is put together in the usual suggestive way. A lack of focus on content, as in earlier films, is also criticized.
Film awards
- 2015 nomination for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary
- 2015 nomination for the Austin Film Critics Award for Best Documentary
- 2016 nomination for the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary
- Chicago International Film Festival 2015: Audience Award for Best Documentary
- Cinema Eye Honors Awards, 2016: Nomination for the Cinema Eye Audience Choice Prize
- Hamptons International Film Festival 2015 Audience Award for Best Documentary
- 2016 nomination for the Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Documentary
- Iowa Film Critics Award 2016 Runner-up for Best Documentary
- 2015 nomination for the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Documentary
- 2016 nomination for the Audience Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival
- 2015 nomination for the Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for best documentary
- 2015 nomination for the Satellite Award for best documentary film
Web links
- Where to Invade Next in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Adam Graham: Michael Moore's 'Where to Invade Next' Toronto-bound . In: The Detroit News . July 28, 2015.
- ↑ Dornbush, Jonathon: Michael Moore talks making Where to Invade Next in secret, focus on 'infinite war' . In: Entertainment Weekly . July 29, 2015.
- ^ Barnes, Henry: Where to Invade Next review - Michael Moore gets happy with a sugar-binge idea-stealing session . In: The Guardian . September 11, 2015.
- ↑ Dave McNary, Brent Lang: Michael Moore's 'Where to Invade Next' Goes to New Distribution Label . In: Variety . September 30, 2015.
- ↑ Where to Invade Next (2015) . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Flixster . Retrieved October 30, 2015.
- ↑ Frank Schnelle: Review of Where to Invade Next. In: epd-film.de, January 21, 2016.
- ↑ An Invasion of Stupidity. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 25, 2016, page 41.