Anger is contagious in Moore's new 'Sicko'

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What's most striking about "Sicko" is how composed, even serene it is compared with Michael Moore's previous acts of cinematic insurgency. The puckish ferocity and combative mischief that marked such previous Moore polemics from 1989's "Roger and Me" to 2004's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is on relatively low boil in this one -- at least until the climax where he takes a bunch of chronically ill Americans on a boat to Cuba for some accessible pharmaceuticals and treatment.

You may have already heard that he's probably in a little hot water for that.

But overall, the net effect of "Sicko's" penetrating and devastating inquiry into the way America takes care of its ill and dying is to transfer the anger to the audience rather than have Moore's own outrage spread all over his film. Which makes this movie, by a considerable distance, the writer-director's most effective provocation yet.

Those who already have their backs up whenever they hear Moore's voice won't want to see or hear what he has to say about insurance companies that deny benefits and even life-saving surgical procedures to their clients. But he pretty much lets those clients and even some former employees of those companies speak for themselves.



http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/ny-etsicko0620,0,1950216.story?coll=ny-main-bigpix

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1. Revolution doesn't happen when people are hurting, it happens when they have a vision

and a belief that they can do what it takes to make the change happen.

Anger WILL be a part of what people feel after they see this film. I hope they will also have a vision and a belief that they can make change happen. I am hoping that between Inconvenient Truth, LiveEarth, and SiCKO - people of this nation will awaken from their stupor to demand corporations get out of the news business, insurance companies get out of the health field, and government be returned from the corporate elite to the people.

Power to the people!