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Film Critique

“Fahrenheit 9/11” is a very biased film that brings out the faults, facts, and other information that has been released to the general public. The facts that are stated in the film make people question the credibility of our current commander in chief, President George W. Bush. His actions and statements on several instances are a poor representation of the United States of America and what our nation stands for.
The documentary is successful in many ways as Moore fills the movie with a huge propaganda technique called card stacking. Card stacking is simply the art of pointing out the pros or cons of a specific subject, and in this case, the cons of President Bush. Critic Anton Bitel states that, “[the film] is significant for outside of America; George Bush is probably the least admired president that the US has ever had, so that, before a European audience, Moore is largely preaching to the converted.” I too agree that when seen by other countries, their response to the film will be of no shock. This gives the countries an inside look at the ill decisions made by the president in a very biased way (Bitel).
What appears to be random interviews with people on the streets, Moore tries to show how the “majority” of the country fee
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Characters were not a major part of the film as they were real people with excerpts of conversations being shown to argue the President's ill decisions.
Michael Moore does a stupendous job with including special effects into a documentary without overdoing, or under doing them. Constantly seen are signs of stupidity and unknowingness as many saw with the attacks of September 11, 2001. Contradicting the points just made is Newsweek’s Chris Lehane, stating in an email to Isikoff and Hosenball, that there are multiple connections of Bush with the Carlyle group during the period of the Saudi contracts (Hosenball/Isikoff). The views of ground zero shown in the film appear as if they are that of injured person lying on the streets...