Where to Invade Next (2015)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 120 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Michael Moore
Stars: Michael Moore
IMDb score:
7,5 (26.636)
Releasedate: 23 December 2015
Where to Invade Next plot
"Prepare to be liberated"
Michael Moore has long been annoyed by the fact that the US is endlessly involved in various wars around the world. He is tired of this - according to him - constant need for having an enemy to keep the military-industrial complex alive. In this documentary, Moore asks the Pentagon to take a step back. From now on, he arranges the invasions for America!
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otherfool
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- 18541 messages
- 3404 votes
Michael Moore stumbles his way across Europe (and Tunisia) to 'steal' all kinds of fine things and import them to the US. Not such a bad idea and right up your alley you would say, but the execution is downright lousy. The fact that Moore explains at the beginning of the film to only pick out positive elements is a bit silly of course, and the simplicity quickly takes over. Surely you can't discuss excellent working conditions without including unemployment figures at the same time?
Worse still, Moore occasionally goes completely off the rails; the interview with the Utoya father was nothing short of outrageous, setting women's rights in Tunisia as a shining example is downright stupid and the stuff in Iceland that Bélon talked about was too laughable for words. Furthermore, the film is way too long, and it never gets edgy: Moore plays the naive American who imagines himself in a candy store, just to push his agenda with the (American) public.
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mrklm
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- 12790 messages
- 10678 votes
Michael Moore goes in search of solutions to American problems and does so in a light-hearted way that makes this documentary a bit more light-hearted than Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine and Roger & Me. That makes this film a bit more accessible, but also a bit less catchy. And he touches on some revealing issues, such as the role of women in the Tunisian parliament and in the catastrophic banking crisis in Iceland. The focus on education and school nutrition is also relevant, as is the way in which Germany deals with the dark sides of its own past. Sometimes Moore also misses the mark, for example when he praises the fringe benefits in Italy… a country with a particularly weak economy. But Moore, as always, provides food for thought and it's nice that Moore ends with a message of hope.
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De filosoof
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- 2613 messages
- 1791 votes
As has been said many times above, Moore paints a caricature in the film of the dirty capitalist, racist and violent US where nothing works and everyone but a small elite is crippled vs. the social-democratic paradise Europe where everyone is equal, happy, peaceful and prosperous (by the way – in the eyes of Americans – only incomprehensible paradoxes: more provisions for less taxes, less drug use through legalization of drugs, fewer escapes by detainees the key to the prison, etc). But the film is well made again because entertaining, sometimes even hilarious or even moving, contains fun facts about a number of countries and the idea on which the film is based is brilliant: instead of invading other countries to kill or extract raw materials. Stealing Moore invades countries to steal good ideas only to come to the conclusion that all those good ideas come from the US itself but that the US itself has not yet implemented them. And although Moore's caricatured portrayal means that everything in the film should be taken with a grain of salt, he is also right at the heart of the matter: the US is more individualistic than Europe, which makes the individual super rich but gives the majority a harder life than that. of the average European.
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