I Know I'm Not Alone
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Movie Reviews of I Know I'm Not Alone
Movie Review: Franti Bridges Cultural Gaps
Summary: 4 Stars
Franti does a great job at dispelling several commonly held beliefs about inbred hatred and injustice, at the same time giving a voice to people we don't ever see on the American news. Whether Muslim or Jew, Iraqi or American, we all fundamentally want peace for our families--and because this message doesn't serve corporate America and its warmongerers, the mainstream media doesn't bother to investigate it. Franti goes in with a guitar and a camera and reveals the humanity behind the opposing ideologies surrounding this delicate issue. Some moments in the film have the feeling of being overly precious, but this does not detract from the movie's moving message.Movie Review: Eye Opener
Summary: 4 Stars
I watched this movie last night and I like Michael's music. I must say that this movie is an eye opener! Over all I think that this was a good movie that all should watch. What a great man to go in peace and try to offer peace to all sides. I love seeing the face of the people and how music calms them a little. The children's eyes light up when he walks up playing his guitar. What and experience that must have been for him and how awesome the people were to him. Some of the people were just beautiful.Movie Review: Good Tunes with a Global Message
Summary: 4 Stars
I was first captivated by Micheal Franti in his "Disposable Heros of Hiphoprisy" days (TV, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation). This CD is certainly more polished and mainstream but in a good way. He still has a way with lyrics and ideas, now set to a body moving beat.Movie Review: 5 stars (not 3)!!! Accessible to all, shows both sides, promotes peace
Summary: 3 Stars
We just showed the part of this film on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to about 50 high school students, and they were riveted. What is different about this film is that the director Michael Franti's main concern is with the question of peace. He goes about it by interviewing people on both sides of the conflict in a natural setting - Israeli soldiers on the border, Palestinians kept from their land by the wall, Israelis who were witnesses of a sucide attack, Palestinian children forced out of their homes in the middle of the night, Israeli peace activists, an Israeli ex-soldier, Palestinian and Israelis who have lost children through the fighting, a Palestinian hiphop group, a Palestinian teenager from a refugee camp, etc. Franti engages people in dialogue, plays music with them, portraying the anguish and unmet needs for peace and security of those on both sides.
The film leaves you with a much greater appreciation of the human side of this conflict and a feeling of optimism that peace might be possible if people were able to stop demonizing each other, to initiate dialogue, and - a big if - to make their voices heard over the politicians.
Franti also includes a brief overview of the history of the conflict with an animated map at the beginning of the film.
I'm ordering numerous copies of this for friends and the school where I work. It's great for discussions and shows things that the U.S. media never shows.
Movie Review: Wow, that was terrible, michael franti is self righteous and vain.
Summary: 1 Stars
Firstly: before everyone else gets their panties in a twist, a few things
1) I am arab
2) I am left of the centre- So I assume we're all on the same wave length here.
But I have to be honest. This documentary, as good intentions as it may have had, is terrible.
Walking into the belly of the beast (so to say) as a musician with an open and honest face is fine, I dont see issue with it, but to see that Michael Franti, through all his need to push the message down your throat felt like he could slip in a bit of vanity inbetween is pointless.
That said, I've been to the west bank, and I am going to be going to aid work with Iraqi refugees, so I might be clued into some information, but you dont walk around a war zone with an acoustic guitar strumming it to yourself.
Firstly, you look like an idiot, secondly, most arabs, myself included would probably say "What an idiot" but good thing franti had a video camera with him, otherwise everyone might have just told him to shut his trap.
Secondly, shouting "Habibi" (The word sweetheart in male context) while strumming your guitar doesnt make it a song. In fact, if you say habibi to other men its actually a homosexual connotation, unless they understand the context you are in OR in your family.
Do i have something against homosexuals? No. But conservative arabs do, especially when you suggest they might be gay too. Dont believe me? Try it sometime.
He could have just walked around and shouted "HEY IM GAY, I LIKE MEN" and it would give the same response. I mean, you can see in the video people uneasily singing along thinking "What a stupid american".
AND THE GUY IS proud of it? "Please excuse me, my underpants smell amazing... AND ONCE AGAIN, HABIBI WAS A MAJOR HIT WITH THE LOCALS LOL".
Dont get me wrong, I felt there was a lot right in this documentary, but to be honest, its the same as many others that have shown the human cost of war. I like how he did try and see the right end of it all, and truley speak to the people involved in it, but what annoyed me (once again) was his self indulgent my-farts-are-flowery-in-smell attitude is when he went and got some villager from the west bank to go and speak to a settlement security force member.
Are you serious? Just because you stick a camera in their faces they are really going to mend ties? hmmm... lets get them talking on camera because it is an american documentary being filmed and the last thing we want to do is make it look like we are inhumane and dont want to talk to these people.
I know as soon as franti went off (probably singing habibi again) they went back to their old ways. A little bit more informed and possibly willing to make amends, but in a war like situation no one cares about these things. No one really wants to sit down and listen to each others feelings no matter how awesome it really would be.
There are two sides to it and you cannot get them to assimilate together. Its as simple as that. As painful as it sounds and my lack of faith in "the spirit of brotherhood" or whatever other thing you think i am lacking its because I have seen, dealt and spoken to people on both sides too.
Maybe this documentary is meant to show us that there is more to it. Maybe its meant to show us that people of the world can come together and help. But really, all franti did was poke more times at the wound and managed to enjoy the smell of his own odor while he was at it.
Give it a go if you arent into anything really mentally stimulating and want a better idea on the situation (if you havent had one before) otherwise give it a miss.
Franti should stick to music, and he isnt that great at that either.
AND BEFORE YOU CAN GUESS IT... HABIBI WAS A HIT AGAIN.
drop this waste of time.