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Yeah, yeah...one of the last DUers to see it, not that's it's finally running on "On Demand."
Two things struck me...first, it points out nothing that I and many, many other DUers had been saying for years. Saying about the housing bubble, the phony financial crisis, the whole premise of the film. It didn't take a genius to see it coming -- it couldn't have if even I saw it coming! (Read my old DU journals). Which makes the also-screamed-about media complicity even more aggravating. The very corporations who would benefit from the phony collapse were the same ones who were promoting the story. Win-win for them, lose-lose for everyone else.
Second -- the guy from Peoria, Illinois whose family was forced out of their house and further humiliated by being offered money to clean up their former residence for the bank: WTF, Michael Moore?! Even YOU could have seen the bullshit in the story! For sure, it was a sad saga of a family being put out onto the street. But the couple who could not pay their bills blamed at least part of it on the husband's inability to work due to his long-term disability. Yet he was filmed carrying huge loads of trash, furniture, mattresses, whatever. What the hell was his disability? He fell asleep too much? He ate too much? Dude seemed to be able to carry a freakin' horse, but he was on disability? Obviously I don't know his actual circumstance, because Mr. Moore completely ignored that part of the story. And to that end, he undermined his story and gave ammunition to those who would call such people deadbeats and brush them off with a "good riddance."
I think Michael Moore is a brilliant filmmaker, but even he should have seen the truck-sized holes in the Peoria couple's story. Just a little balance or explanation might have gone a long way. Besides that, though -- the movie is a must-see.
End of review. :hi:
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