Michael Moore Movies

Hey!

So they were showing this movie Sicko by Michael Moore on Star Movies yesterday afternoon, which is about the health care scenario in the US. Right throughout the movie, he was drawing comparisons between the way America treats its people and how other countries treats its sick and unhealthy. The basis of the movie/documentary was that in almost every country outside of the US (London, France & Canada) has free health care, so if you fall sick then you have to pay through your nose to get treatment. In fact, the movie showed a few cases where a couple of kids had died in America as their parents employers did not cover the medical condition they had.
What stood out through the movie (for me) is that how one sided the entire movie was. Right through the movie, they were only showcasing how great the other countries are and how they treat their people soo nicely etc. (I don’t know how much of that is actually true) As I watched it, I started developing hatred towards America (but that’s ok, I didn’t like the country anyways) but somewhere down the line, I realized that the entire movie was shot such that you feel hatred towards the US on purpose. This got me wondering, is this the right way to make a movie? I mean I know that mostly movies express a particular point of view or have a message, which mostly the view point of the makers of the film, but when you are making a kinda documentary, is this fair?
This, for me, casts doubts on the documentary 9/11 which showed George W. Bush to be a dumbF%@#. I am sure those who saw that movie reaffirmed their faith that George W. Bush was the worst President in recent times. And he won an Oscar for it as well!

Really makes you draw parallels with cinema here in India with cinema abroad. While both have a story to tell, how they tell and how receptive the audience are differs a lot!