It’s like Kevin Smith said of the documentary Loose Change (which I haven’t yet seen) on a recent Smodcast … it’s not the highest in terms of documentary standards (the whole British sequence almost made me cry laughing), but it is a great movie. Michael Moore really knows how to make 2 hours worth your time, how to pull both laughs and tears from an audience. There’s anger, sadness, joy, despair, humour, everything you could possibly want from a movie here. I didn’t think it could be as good as Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, and it isn’t – the issues it covers simply aren’t as thorny. But it is a lot more involving and arresting than I expected. As Che Guevara’s daughter (a pediatrician, apparently – you learn something new every day, lol) says at the end, asking why a place like Cuba is (seemingly) able to provide better healthcare than a place like America – “There’s something to notice there.” Michael Moore might not be the most even-handed of filmmakers, but he certainly notices these things, and opens the floodgates and gets other people noticing and asking questions, and somehow has a lot of fun along the way.

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