Like him or not, he has your attention

I just seen this movie again on Encore, have to say that he surely has brought out a lot of emotion in people on both sides. As a filmaker he is doing a great job.

I'd like to see how many of you have blue-collar backgrounds because this movie hit close to home as our town's rubber plant is scaling back and has been trying to close moving all of its products to, what else, Mexico.

Sure businesses are about profits but god show some sympathy for these people. They were brought up on the idea that they could work and build GM products. Its not that they all slacked out of college (some did of course) its just that they seen good paying work right in their hometown, and it was ripped out from under them. Besides, some of us, believe it or not, can't afford to go to college. That was their life, their dad did it and their granddad did it.

They were thrown out of their homes because they probably lived paycheck to paycheck and on credit. They got their lesson, but I wonder how many of us do that today?

We are going into a service sector economy and those manufacturing jobs are being phased out, its simply a matter of evolution. But we have to look at that transition and how people are affected by it. We're lucky enough here that the government helps layed-off workers get back into school.

I'd agree that this film is over saturated with sarcasm and irony but that is what made it enjoyable. One poor guy (at the time at least) showing America that the difference between the classes is miles and miles apart. To some people the rabbit part was the most emotional (not to me, I hunt :) ) but those scenes moving past those abandoned shop fronts and houses really touched me.

There's my input, blast away