POZitive Attitudes

FRIDAY MOVIE / DINNER. SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

MICHAEL MOORE’S FAHRENHEIT 11/9 (Comic Reality)

GATEWAY THEATRE  at 7 PM

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DINNER at 9 PM –

Walk to Louie’s Pizza (1990 E. Sunrise)

Everyone Welcome

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You’ll cry laughing at Michael Moore’s new doc Fahrenheit 11/9, an unmissable provocation about the rise and rise of Donald J. Trump that should help get out the vote in November better than any limp recruitment outreach. One of Moore’s best and most incisively funny films — right up there with Roger & Me (1989), Bowling for Columbine (2002) and Sicko (2007) — his latest goes way past taking potshots at the Donald, though it does that with piercing intelligence and wounding wit. Rather, he wants to show us that this celebrity Commander-in-Chief didn’t just fall from the sky. The movie is Moore’s State of the Union message. And, damn, are we in trouble.

.In so doing he has simply reversed the numbers to Fahrenheit 11/9, referring to the morning after Donald Trump’s shocking election as president. But as I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), this is not a two-hour Moore attack on the Donald, easy as that might be to imagine considering this filmmaker. Oh sure, there is some of that, particularly in the first half-hour where he wonders how we got to this point and revisits some of the greatest hits of the Trump campaign and, now, presidency. But if you think that is the direction for the rest of the film, thankfully you would be wrong.

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There is no question Moore made this film out of a feeling that our democracy is running out of time, but he also has other things on his mind. He spends a considerable part of the movie delving into and dissecting other issues including the water crisis in his hometown of Flint, MI; the high school shooting in Parkland, FL, and the movement students there turned into a national crusade; and a courageous teachers strike in West Virginia.

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