Posted by pegasus on June 30, 2004, at 17:46:13
In reply to Farhenheit 9/11, posted by Cass on June 29, 2004, at 12:26:23
The part that hit me the hardest was how the poor and disadvantaged were the ones fighting the war and getting maimed and killed. It's not the people who support the war, or even those who don't. It's the folks who don't have the luxury of any other plausible path success in their lives than joining the military. It just breaks my heart.
Also, I want to weigh in on the documentary vs. op/ed issue. I think this is called a documentary mainly because op/ed is not a recognized film category. So, it's either documentary or drama. It might include a lot of speculation and conclusions that might not be accepted by everyone, but all of the actual film footage was of things that were actually happening. It wasn't dramatized footage. So, it's a documentary. Personally, I don't think any documentary presents facts without proposing conclusions or presenting opinions. And if they did, they'd probably be pretty boring. Michael Moore may be more in-your-face than other documentarians with his opinions, but I don't think that makes this any less a documentary.
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