Fahrenheit 911 is not a new film, but I never have time to see it. I thought it is about politics so it must not be objective. I didn't want to get involved in that kind of swamp. However, this film is a Cannes Festival winner, which make it more accessible to the public. I don't know if it would have been forbidden in the US, if the film didn't win such a prize. Anyway, I saw it.
It is clear that this film is about politics of the US. I think it is not necessary to mention those shots in this blog. There are a lot of reviews and critics about it out there.
There was no such a documentary in the film history that could be so sensational. One of the reward presenter had ever said that this film is chose not because of politics but its artistic skills. It is a conventional view that documentary should be about the facts and be objective. Obviously this documentary perfectly blended traditional features with entertaining elements. However, I think this film appeared less impartial rather than objective. Anyone can feel the obvious political stand against Bush in it. Maybe this kind of controversy is what made it so popular.
One of the point in the film is the opposition of the war against Iraq. However, the war is approved by the congress which represent most US people. So if the war is not the will of the US people, we can conclude that there is something wrong with the congress and also the whole system of government. On the other side,the US government is considered the best government in the world so far. We can only conclude that the Iraq war represented the mainstream of public opinion. I think this is also a kind of tyranny of the majority, against the outside not the inside. If we think about McCarthyism in the 50s which was accused by the justice, I can't help thinking that the justice is only for the US people.
In fact, I heard of some kind of so-called liberal wing's opinions, like that US is a country with the most intensive sense of mission or salvation. Of course people holding such opinion think Iraq war is justified. I will say such opinion is totally bullshit. If these guys were Iraq people, they would not think so.
Actually I was deeply struck by the scenes of a mother of a US soldier who was dead in Iraq war, as sad as when I saw the film Nanking. So, I think the war is war. It is brutal. It is antihuman. The history of human civilizations are still short compared with the evolution history. Maybe it is too short to see its perfection. Maybe after a long time like several tens of thousands of years, human at that time will think us barbarian and not civilized at all although we are so proud of modern science and technology today. Maybe they will think us ridiculous. Why people are still fighting each other while there are more important thing to do to sustain our existence on earth?
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