Balanced Film on an Unbalanced Michael Moore - Manufacturing Dissent

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'Manufacturing Dissent' - http://imdb.com/title/tt0961117/

"It's hard to count how many documentaries have been made about Michael Moore, but those made by Canadian left-wing fans seem to be a bit scarcer. Supported largely by Canadian financiers, Manufacturing Dissent starts out as a balanced exploration of filmmaker and political personality Michael Moore. The film documents Moore during his 2004 national touring campaign for Fahrenheit 9/11, his politically sensational documentary that spoke out against the integrity of the Bush Administration.

As the film progresses, the filmmakers are disappointingly unsuccessful in securing an interview with Moore, and as they try, facts arise questioning Moore's credibility as a journalist, his film-making techniques, and his personal character. It concludes on a much less optimistic note than at the beginning, gradually disclosing a reluctantly-developed disenchantment with the fervent Midwestern public activist.

What makes Manufacturing Dissent particularly unique is its resistance from sensationalizing its condemning findings. With an attitude of professional reserve, Manufacturing Dissent strategically uses subtlety and a careful resolve to disclose straightforward facts and present the comments of interviewees with accuracy and integrity—a set of convictions that many viewers, in turn, observe to be lacking from Moore's bountiful supply. This is a film that speaks, first and foremost, to the die-hard fans of Michael Moore. Leftist followers owe it to themselves to experience the cautious, revealing process that this film provides."
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What they found out among other things was that his original hit, "Roger and Me" was a scam. Moore actually DID interview "Roger" (Roger Smith, CEO of General Motors) - TWICE - and left the footage of those interviews on the cutting room floor, apparently for "dramatic effect". The entire premise of the film was Moore's amusing and supposedly fruitless attempts to talk to Smith about GM's plant closure in Flint, Michigan.

"Caine and Melnyk said they had hoped to interview Moore about his views on how much editing was acceptable before a factual documentary turned into misleading propaganda." Their every attempt to talk to him was turned away, finally by being shoved by his sister and physically ejected from Moore's film festival at Kent State.

"I hope these guys do a similar investigation into Al Gore's film when they will find to their shock and horror that it's a mockumentary not a documentary."
--Tim Chappell, Gloucester, UK

"There has always been a audience among the faithful for a propaganda film masquerading as a documentary. The earliest that comes to mind is “Triumph des Willens” (1935) which glorified Hitler. Upon it’s release it was hailed as an objective masterpiece; its director, Leni Riefenstahl, was pronounced a genius, and the French awarded the film a gold medal.

I delighted that two of The Left have realized that lying doesn’t do their cause any good; it suggests rationality. I hope Caine and Melnyk next documentary exposé will be on Al Gore’s film.”


--Ross Firestone, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Review from London TimesOnline:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1466668.ece