I Know I'm Not Alone
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Movie Reviews of I Know I'm Not Alone
Movie Review: Vice said it best
Summary: 1 Stars
Guys like this make us look like self-righteous suckers. The Iraqi kid writing for Vice Magazine summed it up pretty well:
So here's Michael Franti, this huge, lanky kid with an acoustic guitar and breadlocks, and he goes inside a war-ravaged country to try and pry open "all the answers." Not surprisingly, he manages to completely miss the real pulse of Iraq, presenting his Iraqi subjects with the same patronizing concern you'd expect any kind-souled Westerner to feel towards any war-torn, lower-being Third World humans. It's almost shocking how out-of-touch Franti is with what's going on around him. He decides that making up a song with an Arabic word would be a good ice breaker, so he welcomes himself into each house he visits by jumping up and down in the center of the room singing "habibi" repeatedly while the family members sit back and smile politely at the dancing Western idiot. I'm not sure if this is exactly what he was searching for, but if the human cost of war is being locked in a round of humor-the-foreigner-until-he-goes-away by some messiah-tripping Bob-Marley-wannabee maybe it's more horrific than we thought.
Movie Review: Social Irresponsible!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Can you call this a documentary? What is the point of sharing an ignorant, shallow perspective of a very complicated issue? It feels like Michael Franti spent a handful of days in Palestine and Israel without any prior knowledge of the issues, pointed his camera and came back with footage- calling it a documentary. It's slanted, it lacks depth, and that is not responsible film making. It's cheap and very socially irresponsible!