Pixelated Semantics

Farenheit 9-11 begins to Burn

Michael Moore's newest effort has had its first screening at Cannes, and its first reviews appearing in the media. I doubt whether the ABC's online correspondants have seen it, but they seem content to describe it as "a telling work of propaganda by a movie-maker whose mission to deride Bush exudes from every frame" - on the back of a Reuter's wire service story from a writer who might have seen it. Some Weblogs are reporting "a 20-minute standing ovation, the longest in the history of the festival", while AFP calls it a "virulent anti-Bush film". There is certainly a mission to deride Moore underway. Words like "virulent" and "propaganda" are not intended to soothe and reassure.

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