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Originally posted by JR@May 23 2004, 04:15 PM
you guys keep ignoring a simple fact...
is there a political message to what is being called a "documentary"?
yes?
no?
If yes, how would any normal person expect that political message to be recieved in Cannes, France?
Is Bush popular in Europe? In France? The US? Is Bush popular in Hollywood?
I think it is quite ok to agree with the movie and its content. I think it is retarded to play stupid and act as if it is just "one more movie" with no particular message that was chosen for top honors because... uhm... hmmm... now that i think about it... why exactly was it chosen? Tremendous directing? What makes a "documentary" the best film of the year? cool re-inactments? great sets? perfect costumes?
Were you guys making the same rediculous arguments when Wag The Dog was given the Best Film Of The Year honors in Yugoslavia at the time NATO was bombing Serb troops in Kosovo? You did not see a "possible" connection? It was not maybe... possibly... just maybe somehow politically motivated? Maybe people were likely to agree because it sent a message they believed in? maybe? is it possible?
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JR
of course the movie was political, but a point you seem to miss, is this showing at Cannes has fuckall to do with how France as a whole feels about us. If this had recieved the same ovation at Sundance, would you have said "well, of course, Utah hates the US, of course they loved it there"?
The location had little to do with it. Hell, maybe the film was actually good and fired people up. That's what good movies do. They get people talking and start dialog and conversations. Maybe this is why it won moreso than a bunch of fatcat liberal elite judges trying to piss of MikeAI an Bill O'Reilly?