Thought Provoking movie. You can ask your self, if this country can make this happen why can't we.
... View MoreFirst, Michael Moore is still an idiot. But, this documentary was recommended to me by someone I trust dearly, so thought I would give it a shot. ***Warning, regardless of political views and level of patriotism, if you have thought about leaving the country because of how ridiculous the United States has become, then do not watch this. It might just push you over the edge to leave and finder greener pastures***No need to go into a full review here, but this is a well done documentary even though Michael Moore still makes outlandish claims against the United States with very little or no evidence to back it up. He does crack me up through the documentary as he carries an American Flag with him the entire time, and whenever he has an idea he wants to bring back he just posts it in the ground. Any way, thought provoking, entertaining, and I think I'm moving to Italy or Germany...
... View MoreWhere to invade next is a documentary produced by Michael Moore and was released in late 2015. The documentary is about how Michael Moore (the producer and writer of the documentary) travels all around Europe to find ideas from different European countries, which he can later on bring back to the United States to make the United States more like Europe. Michael utilizes humor to show and describe a complex problem to his viewers in a simple way. But in my opinion too much humor can be very deceiving and as a viewer you can miss the importance of the subject. Michael Moore is an extremely good producer and writer. He's really talented and knows exactly how to catch someone's attention in his new documentary ''Where to invade next''. Although Michael knows what he's doing, he has a tendency to be a lot one-sided. This makes me question almost everything he says in the documentary'. It's my assertion that Michael Moore doesn't show us the whole truth, only what looks good on television. This makes me question if I really can believe everything that Michael tells us, or if he is just angling the facts again? And if so, why?In his documentary he compares the United States with Europe and according to me, Michael presents a picture of how awful the United States is and tells us how Europe is superior in almost every sense. Michael show us how different some parts of the United States are as compared to Europe and in my own naive world I did not believe that the gap between Europe and the United States was that big. What I perceived from the documentary was that the people in Europe and in the United States pays almost the same in taxes. The difference is that the United States choose to use the tax income to finance the military instead of focusing on free healthcare, free college degrees and education for every child. So I agree with Michael Moore on one point: We both want free healthcare, free college degree and education for everyone. So, to summarize, in my opinion Michael utilizes in a humorous way an important issue and puts light on the big differences between the United States and the countries that he visits in Europe. Differences in respect to one and another , gender equality, working conditions and free college degrees. Despite the importance of the documentary it's also very important to question the content, when Michael unilaterally describes the subject. What I want to bring about to you, the reader, is the importance of being critical.
... View MoreThis review will contain spoilers!Where to invade next is directed by and starring Michael Moore who is back with another U.S. critical documentary. While this time comparing European countries, pointing out their strengths and comparing them to his homeland's weaknesses. Even though this film is labeled as a documentary, I'm ready to disagree with this claim. Throughout the film Moore gives a deceptive view of both USA and European countries. By describing USA as an ignorant, cruel and horrible country in chaos and at the same time glorying Europe with false statements the viewer of the movie will be confused and get the wrong picture of how the situation is in the world. The first country Michael Moore decides to visit is Italy, a place where the working conditions are marvelous, with a minimum of 2 hours' lunch, 8 week paid vacation a year and happy workers as far as you can see. But is this really the reality? The answer is obviously no. The truth is Italians are entitled to a maximum of 20 paid vacation days + 10 paid holidays (http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/06/08/countries- most-vacation-days/2400193/), which in total adds up to 31 days, or 6 weeks. Even though 6 weeks is a relatively long time as paid vacation, Moore still chooses to exaggerate which gives a false impression of the working conditions. He also visits France, where a clip of a school chef claims he has never tasted a hamburger, and the kids at school are afraid of Coca- Cola, despite the fact that France has the second highest profitability for McDonalds in the world, besides USA. (http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/snabbmatskedjan-mcdonalds-inte-valkommen- i-Paris-matmekka/)He also visits Tunisia, where he praises the gender equality. He reminds us that the government funds woman-clinics and abortion, but not so surprisingly forgets to mention that the country is in 126th place on World Economic Forum's gender gap list. They also include a clip where a former leader of the government explain that the government can't force a woman to wear head coverings, which sounds great, until he continues with explaining that instead he himself is the one to tell his wife to do that. It's ironic that Moore decides to even bring gender equality up, since it's more of an issue than something to brag about in Tunisia. If he wanted to feature a country in Europe who has achieved more gender equality, he could have chosen Iceland, Norway or Finland, who are the top three most gender equal countries. To summarize, this film is highly biased and only created to make USA look bad in in comparison to Europe. Michael Moore uses false information to fool the viewers and throughout the movie he disparages USA as a country. The idea of a film who compares different countries is great but the way the director chooses to edit and give information is wrong in all ways. I would definitely not recommend this movie due to its lack of credibility. If I were to rate the movie it would get a 4 out of 10. The film deserves 4 stars because of the good sense of humour it contains and the way the movie was produced.
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