This is pathetic

Because the Moore film is just out and a lot more people have seen it?

I saw "Le Chagrin..." last night actually - it's in the middle of a run at the National Film Theatre in London - and the contemporary relevance of much of it is striking.

Particularly noteworthy was the comment from the Resistance fighters that at the time they were routinely descibed at "terrorists".

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I do not consider Michael Moore an idiot. Just someone with a point a view and a forum in which to make his views clear.


But I agree that this is a pretty brilliant film.

Michael Moore could learn something about film making by watching this film!!!!

I heartily agree...Moore's innane baiting of Charlton Heston, his ignorance of basic laissez-faire economics and his lame pseudo-marxist class commentary belong to another age. And yet many viewers (read: lefties) consider him "groundbreaking". Please...
The harder questions to ask are how are we all connected and involved with these long standing institutions in our society? Corporations do the things they do because members of the public (shareholders big and small such as your Dad and the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund) consider it to be in their best interests..so why not really tell it as it is with an appropriately complex argument? Why not speak to people, not down to em? Simple. He's schooled in "critical theory": the idea that every institution of the west should be automatically up for suspicious, global, negative questioning with no balance of argument. To him and his fans, simply getting in people's faces and challenging 'em is deep social commentary, never mind the grade-school formulations. Whining becomes a deep kind of protest. Increasingly, we have a culture of uneducated commentators (many celebs for example) displaying the idea that any kind of speech or protest is noble and adds to the great debate. IMHO, red-herring debates, character assassination and gross over-simplification are often worse than no protest at all, as they make the players and the issues into stick figures. It takes far more courage to admit that we're all involved in this difficult, challenging world. That most do the best with what they have. The same folks that over-simply Iraq ("It's all about the oil") bring the same rigour of analysis to politics as these unfortunate Vichy French apologists: it's a small step from "hidden agendas" and "the CIA set up 911" to "Jews run the world" and other justications for anti-semitism. Don't believe me? Just check out George Jonas' recent column here: http://www.georgejonas.ca/recent_writing.cfm?id=454 He talks about how anti-semitism has regained respectibility in some quarters...

What is pathetic is the way that you have to tear someone down rather than just say something positive about this film. FWIW, "idiot" Michael Moore is far more intelligent than you are.

I thought you were being Super-Meta with your post!

Like, your post was pathetic because instead of just asking a question like an adult, you were being pathetic by using said question to let everyone know about what you think of Michael Moore (which is wrong, of course - MM is many things, but an idiot is not among those things), and that the title of your post was alerting all who read it that YOU are pathetic for such a sad, weak effort!