Please read very emotinal reveiw of F911 by Japanese young movie critique

[hertopos]

I was looking for Japanese links regarding F9-11. Then I find Mr. Machiyama¡¯s web diary. He is a well-known young movie critique who is very popular among young generations in Japan. Right now he is in California. Today¡¯s entry for his web diary was about his F9-11 experience.

I found it very emotional and powerful. I read in Japanese and it made me cry. I translated the most touching part of his writing. He also interviewed Michael Moore.
If you can read Japanese, here is the link
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/TomoMachi/20040625
I am not quite sure if my translation is good enough to convey his natural tone of voice, which carries intense emotion. I tried.


From his ¡®Hatena Diary¡±
¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ (First 2/3 are more like recap of the movie.)

Right wingers were hading out flyers when I came out from the movie ( F11)¡£It said ¡°This movie¡¯s whole purpose is to stop the reelection of Bush.¡±
Well, so what!¡¡That¡¯s exactly true. Everybody knows that. Do you thing people are coming to see this movie without realizing that?
TVs and magazines damp a shit load of crap every day.
At least, I go to see the moving by making my own choice!
A movie is not a public broadcasting. There is nothing wrong to reflect the belief of the creator on the movie!!
Well, I actually interviewed Michael Moore in person. Please read the following for the detail.

http://www.eiga.com/special/bowlingfor/02.shtml

I expect to see a shit load of knit pick, so-called, criticism.
¡° This particular part is not factual¡± ¡° This is taken out of context.¡±
Or, ¡° This lacks objectivity as a documentary¡±
Or, ¡° This is not fair and balanced¡±.

What¡¯s the hell?
These guys let terrorists go and attack other country based on a bunch of lies. How dare you ask for ¡®fair and balanced movie¡±?


There may be some exaggeration and editing.; however, those are all trivial compared to the following two major points the movie makes.

These are what F911 want to tell you.
Bush attacked Iraq which has nothing to do with 911 and lots of Iraqis and Americans are dying
The real terrorists keep terrorizing us and the world meanwhile.


Those two are pure and simple facts.

Right winger are trying to divert your attention since they know they cannot dispute these facts!

At least, it does not make any sense that Bush is allowed to be the president of Unites States when he has the long standing financial tie with the family of Bin
Laden.
If a police let the criminal go because he knew the family, what would you do? We will fire the policeman. It is that simple.

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I dare ask if it is so important to ask the value of F11 purely from a movie critique point of view.
Michael¡¯s life is constantly threatened. But he is trying to stop the killing and the meaningless death. What the point of saying ¡®Oh, it is not very objective¡± or ¡® not balanced¡±

Isn¡¯t it obvious?
If we let Bush stay, the war will continue and may even spread further. ( Without doing anything to ease the terrorist threats.)
Moore is determined to stop this.
He does not care about so ¨C called rules and objectivity, or the value of being a good director.

Moore¡¯s intention is neither making a great artistic movie or ¡®fair and balanced journalism¡±¡¢It is all about stop Bush and stop the waste of human lives.

He is doing his very best to stop people dying in front of him. Only idiots care about the artistic merit of the movie under the circumstance.

People are dying from this meaningless war while terrorists keep beheading civilians.
I cannot stand those movie critiques who ¡®only¡¯ see the movie from its own merit.

A famous old French movie director made a comment about Moore, calling him not a real intellect.
Sounds very French. This guys made a lot of noise during a Vietnam war but his action did not change a thing.
Well, during the Vietnam war, many people tried the same thing but none succeeded

But this time may be different. A small budget movie created by a guy may stop the insanity of the president.

A movie may save hundreds and thousands of lives.
We saw number of anti-war movement by religious leader, thinkers, artists and musicians. However, how many actually stop the war? Well, this time it may happen. You know, I have a feeling it may happen because the right wingers are so afraid of this movie. No movie evoked this much fear from the establishment. A low-budget movie direct may change the destiny of the president of the world most powerful nation and the destiny of the world itself.

This is phenomenal. We feel so powerless in this suffocating world. But Moore showed us something special. He gave us a hope. He showed us that we can actually do something to change awful things happening in this world. He showed us there is something stronger than the power or money or the force.

I want this movie to defeat Bush. I will do everything to help that.

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Hertopos

[Randers]

1. thanks for the post

[hertopos]

3. I thought this review has one very interesting point of veiw.

That F911 is telling us that a movie may be able to change the direction of the world.

Mr. Machiyama is a 'movie otaku'. He is a kind of guy who knows a aweful details of obscure movie. It is very interesting that the head Judge of Palm d' Or was the ultimate movie geek 'Quantine Talanino' himself.

Geekdom thrived on the most obscure details. Mr. Machiyama's approch to movie is always very personal and movie geekdom driven.

Machiyama pointed out the quote from 'Omegaman' in 'Bowling for Columnine' nobody ( including Americn critiques" noticed and made Moore very happy.

Machiyama accept Moore as what he is. That is quite refreshing.

Hertopos

[ContinentalOp]

5. What is the quote?

What's the quote from Omegaman in Bowling for Columbine?

[hlthe2b]

2. Yes... I hope both the review and the movie will be seen by

many in Japan (and Japanese Americans). I'd dearly love for the world to know that there ARE efforts to get the truth out there and we are not all willing to embrace America as an imperialistic power, nor be lead by a moron with "visions of grandeur."

Thanks for sharing.

[pnorman]

4. Thanks also.

My Japanese isn't all that good, but I just printed that page out and will try my hand at it later. I notice on the "Bowling For Columbine" link, that Michael Moore is termed: "The Laughing Guerilla". I like that!

pnorman