Where to Invade Next

2016 • 120 mínútur

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Just in time for election season, America's favorite political provocateur, Michael Moore, is back with his new film, WHERE TO INVADE NEXT. Honored by festivals and critics groups alike, WHERE TO INVADE NEXT is an expansive, hilarious, and subversive comedy in which the Academy Award®-winning director confronts the most pressing issues facing America today and finds solutions in the most unlikely places. The creator of FAHRENHEIT 9/11 and BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE has returned with an epic movie that’s unlike anything he has done before—an eye-opening call to arms to capture the American Dream and restore it in, of all places, America.

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As a European ex-pat with 20+ year experience in America I think it should be required viewing over here, and for any European thinking of moving here. It included some really thought provoking and reflective stuff and plenty of shameful video of conditions in the US, especially the prison system. The many people he interviewed portrayed views of societies that were just more humane than anything we have. As one Icelandic woman said "You don't know how to treat your neighbors well, I would never want you as a neighbor". As another said "this isn't socialism, it's just being a good society". His special focus on the role of women in these societies was also good to see, indeed it was a major theme along with the message that many of the things that these countries have found were things that America once lead with but somehow has lost the plot on in the last 30+ years. Sadly it will be wildly unpopular with the Trump voting haters - ironically the ones who would benefit the most from the many things Moore would like to bring back home. Sometimes you just have to ram kindness down their throats until they thank you for it but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting.

I honestly think that deep down most Americans know that we're prideful, overly indulgent and ignorant of much of the world. Jimmy Carter tried to gently counsel to the American people by pointing out the bad direction they were heading in but of course few listened. Gentle counsel has been tried over and over again and ultimately has failed miserably. I think Michael Moore was honestly stuck with a miserably unattainable goal: changing Americans. I clicked 2 stars before I started typing. Honestly, that isn't fair. I reacted like an American of course... I didn't make it through the entire documentary but that was because of my own disgust and shame with myself. In the words of Joseph Sweeney (Juror #9) from 12 Angry Men: "This gentleman has been standing alone against us. [...] Well, it's not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of others, so he gambled for support... and I gave it to him. I respect his motives." Michael Moore. I give you my support - 4 stars (sorry about the 5th man...I am American after all lol).

I have worked for over 10 years in a war zone now. Nothing this man (Moore) says or puts on film should ever be taken as fact let alone serious. There is just so much twisting of the facts in everything I have seen from him is just silly to watch any more. One that always stand out to me, the movie he did about 9-11 where he shows a picture of a secret service agent on the lawn of the white house holding an award binder with the presidential seal on it. Moore says that was the "secret" documents that warned of the attack. Really, so they are going to line up and stand out in the open, on the front lawn of the Whitehouse and present that kind of report to the President. Yeah right.... It was the same type of padded binder that you get when you are awarded something. The agent was receiving an award for something he had done. Not giving any sort of sensitive documents to anyone out there in the open like that.