"Fahrenheit 11/9" is bombing badly at the American box-office and it's not because it's a bad movie. I was pleasantly surprised by its passionate, anti-establishment discourse when I saw it earlier this month. However, opening to a little over $3 million in 1,719 theaters is bad, really bad. Moore's 2004George W. Bush indictment, and Palme d'Or Winning, “Fahrenheit 9/11” was a product of its time, and it worked wonders at the box-office (check that $19M opening weekend) because Bush, contrary to Trump, was not as consistently covered on television. This just goes to show the grasp and hold Trump has on the American discourse, he wants consistent wall-to-wall coverage so he can manipulate the media as the puppets that they are and, guess what, he is doing just that.
Read more"Fahrenheit 11/9" is a scathing indictment of the American establishment
I had hesitations going into Michael Moore's latest one-sided opus "Fahrenheit 11/9." After all, this is a documentary that was supposed to be mostly about the Donald Trump presidency and how his ascension led to his becoming the 45th president on November 9th, 2016. What I didn't expect was a scathing indictment of the whole establishment, Democratic and Republican, which makes the film feel more fully conceived and surprisingly unbiased. It's his best movie since 2004's Palme D'or winning George W. Bush indictment "Fahrenheit 9/11."
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