Discussion: 3 Controversial movies of 2004: What do you think?
Fahrenheit 9/11
Controversy: Does this movie really deserve the Golden Palm of Cannes? Isn't it just too much Anti-Bush?
My opnion: Maybe not really great journalism, and by far not as good as Bowling for Columbine, but a very convincing Anti-Bush-film.
The Passion of the Christ
Controversy: Anti-semitism? Just a big show or an honest film?
My opinion: Definetly the worst film I have seen for awhile.
The problems:
- how many litres of blood did Jesus have in his body? 27?
- the women in the film: what are they doing? Weeping all the time.
- some extremely violent scenes: exaggerated and nasty
Der Untergang
Controversy: Is the Hitler shown in this film too human? Wasn't he a monster?
My opinion: I think it's all right to show Hitler as a human being. He was a man, and if we see him as a monster, then we exclude him from the rest of humanity and say that a human being would never have been able to do something like that. And that's wrong. There ARE evil people like that, even today. They do NOT come from another planet.
The film is by far one of the best German films since years (since Lola?).
The Passion is the one film this year that I HATE. It is absolutely one of the worst examples of manipulative violence and over-simplification I have ever seen.
I agree with that. In the theatre, I had people around me who really thought that everything must have been like that.
I'd have to say the exact same thing about Fahrenheit 9/11.
I recommend you Der Untergang. Amazing!
And I see what you're talking about. The main difference for me is that one film is manipulating an entire faith, and one is a political agenda.
I just read on imdb.com news that Michael Moore is planning on making a sequel to Fahrenheit 9/11.
Yes, I've heard that, too. A sequel for all those who just don't understand that G.W.B. is a ..., and have voted for him.
Maybe with the release of Fahrenhype 9/11 (2004), Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die (2004) and Michael Moore Hates America (2004) people began to doubt Michael Moore's honesty in his film (He has been accused of lying and stretching the truth and changing facts in his films). However I haven't seen any of these but I saw Fahrenheit 9/11, I didn't really think it was that great of a documentary. Also Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal (2004) was released right before the election, I don't think it helped John Kerry any.
I haven't seen any of these films neither.
Of course, Fahrenheit 9/11 wasn't a good documentary feature, but as an Anti-Bush-film it still remains (at least for me) an interesting movie.