Fahrenheit 9/11

I went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 last night with my husband and some of his friends from work. It was really good. Really. It was funny, sad, shocking, silly, and unbelievable in points - kind of like Michael Moore.

We got to the theater at 8:20 and all shows were sold out, there was already a line for our showing (9:00). There were people there signing up voters and handing out flyers on how we can help to defeat Bush in November. It was a really diverse crowd - from "hippie" types to yuppies, senior citizens, different races, gay, straight, dressed-up and bummed out. It is the first movie in a long time that I have been to where people clapped and hissed at what was on the screen!

The connections that Bush has with the Bin Laden family along with his past business failures and partners in crime were a bit of a shock to me. So was some of the news footage that they showed. I haven't had a TV for almost 2 years so I haven't seen a lot of the footage of the war. I listen to NPR for most of my news, so I have heard - but it is an entirely different thing to see it. When I mentioned this to someone in my class today during lunch, they didn't know what I was talking about. Apparently they haven't really been showing these things on TV here - so much for a free media system.