A good film

SWMBO and I watched Sicko tonight for the first time. It was remarkable!

Michael Moore was less strident, less angry, and far gentler and full of sympathy than he has been in other movies. I think that's because he was dealing with sick people and people who had lost loved ones to the U.S. health care (or lack of health care) system. None-the-less it was an incredibly powerful film.

Interestingly, this film didn't generate the right-wing backlash that his earlier films did. Roger & Me dealt mainly with American ecomonics, Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 mainly with politics, and were, I think, angrier films. Sicko was a gentler, if not more effective film, as a result. The strange thing is, that while the previous films generated a great deal of controversy, the response to this film has been muted. I suspect that this is because this film points out so many gross injustices caused by the capitalist economic system, and particularly the insurance industry, that they've taken a policy of ignoring it and hoping that, if they don't comment, people won't notice it. Alas, I fear that there's some truth in that approach.

God bless Michael Moore. If anyone should be angry, it should be the American people, the very people that have been abused by their own system!