If you haven't already, go see fozbaca.org: Fahrenheit 9/11. Moore has outdone himself in creating an effective, truthful documentary that doesn't resort to cheap tricks or sensationalism.

For the most part, Moore lets the targets of his documentary speak for themselves. And boy, do they do a good job of self-condemnation.

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Moore is a masterful editor and provacateur. The film opens with a "dream sequence", showing Gore's victory celebrations, and news coverage of Gore being declared victor by the media... and then things start going wrong.

9/11 itself is not shown. Moore cuts to a black screen, and fills the theatre with the sounds of the impacts and general chaos. When the picture returns, it is of people, not buildings.

Unlike his previous films, he takes a back-seat to the people and corporations he is trying to expose in this film.

Bush comes off very poorly in the documentary, as do several corporations (at one point, he shows footage of a meeting of several corporations, such as Microsoft and Halliburton, whose sole focus is how to profit from Iraq.

But, aside from the attack on corporations, Moore also strikes a strong humanistic tone in the movie. Two mothers who have lost in the Iraq occupation are shown. The first is an Iraqi woman, whose uncle's home has been destroyed. She is beside herself in grief, asking God why this has happened to someone who had no part in the politics the Americans are attacking. She curses the US, asking God to bring down their houses in return.

A little while later in the film, Moore shows a US woman whose son was killed in Iraq. He didn't want to be there; he wrote to her shortly before his death, saying that he hoped Bush would not be re-elected and that they had been sent there for nothing. She also asks God why. Why her son.

I agree with Alan's statement that this film will probably not change the minds of the right, because they won't bother to see it.

But if they did bother, I think they'd change their minds. Moore has done a very, very good job with this film.