Last word from TIFF on “Captain Mike”
I don’t know about you, but I would tend to take it as a bad omen when even the World Socialist Web Site doesn’t like Michael Moore’s new opus, “Captain Mike Across America”:
Michael Moore’s Captain Mike Across America speaks indirectly to some of the peculiarities of American political life, in fact, to the essential untenability of the two-party system. It documents Moore’s tour on behalf of Democratic Party presidential candidate John Kerry through a number of “swing” states in the weeks before the November 2004 election. Moore, of course, was riding high on the great success of his Fahrenheit 9/11, which had opened in late June.
The peculiarities of the new film begin with its opening titles, which criticize the Kerry campaign, faulting it for a lack of aggressiveness in response to Republican attack ads and so forth. Indeed, whether Moore has edited it out or not, as far as this spectator could determine, there was not a single verbal reference to Kerry in the remainder of the film. This is a film, in other words, from the failed school of “Anybody But Bush.”
Its politics stay at a very low level, for the most part little more than vague populist attacks on the Bush administration, which would educate and enlighten no one. The signs of a growing radicalization, however, which the Democratic Party is incapable of and hostile to seizing upon, are there in the film. Moore makes appearances in a variety of small and medium-sized cities, to enthusiastic crowds. Aside from pointing to that phenomenon, Captain Mike Across America has minimal value.
Again I say.... OUCH. With this type of response thus far, I can’t imagine this film will do well in American release. Stay tuned....
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Why cant socialized health care birth no babies??
The multi birth mother having to go to Montana was bad enough. I know these arent’ run-of-the-mill deliveries, however these cases aren’t being sent to the Mayo Clinic either. Just typical American hospitals doing what there canadian counterparts cant. Someone should track how many of these babies later in life abandon Canada to claim their U.S. citizenship.