Sicko (Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Sicko (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Sad but true!!
Summary: 5 Stars
If your still in denial about how bad the state of America's health care is then I suggest you give this a viewing for it covers everything and makes you wonder if having socialized medicine would be such a "bad thing''. Watch it, it's informative and entertaining at the same time.Movie Review: Makes you wonder
Summary: 5 Stars
Although I don't take everything Mr. Moore says or depicts as gospel, he tends to embellish sometimes. I don't dislike him or believe that he is making things up. His documentaries are at very least interesting and thought provoking. Whatever your politics happen to be; I believe this film with make you want to look at our health care system more carefully. Yeah, he mostly presents his point of view of things, but the health care insurance companies refused for the most part to offer their point of view when given the opportunity. The reality is that it all boils down to money.Movie Review: Makes you feel like you would rather get ill in Bangladesh than America
Summary: 3 Stars
This is Michael Moore's least entertaining documentary, but it is maybe his most important one so far. Anyone who has spent time with Moore's documentaries and heard the critics will realize in Sicko than the detractors have been semi-right all along, because when it comes to propaganda, Sicko maybe his most half-truths laden work to date... but he does do it well.
With this ambulance it is impossible for the neigh Sayers to claim that Moore is balanced or impartial. Moore can take a topic like America's failing healthcare system and then push it so that Cuba is helping 911 rescue workers get medical care. Of course it is all mountains of misinformation built on hills of truth and we know that Cubans aren't getting what those 911 rescue workers got, so why do we watch him? Moore raises questions and does it in a way that makes his points interesting. If the same points were made in any other way it would scarcely raise an eyebrow, but Moore is capable of making something important that gets under our skin. He makes us think, and makes good arguments, even if it does mean we have to bare the hyper velocity spin, and does it go around and around at times.
Sicko does make an important case. Capitalism at its most selfish kills. This is undeniable. The problem is has Moore sold America on a socialized healthcare system? The truth is that he does make a good case for it and seems to indicate that politicians took some nice pay checks not to endorse it. Sicko is absolutely fascinating stuff but Moore does test our gullibility.
Movie Review: Moore's Unmentioned Reasons Americans Don't Have Health Care
Summary: 4 Stars
"Sicko" is a brilliant and powerful film. Exceptional for a documentary on a painful topic, "Sicko" is also a joy to watch. Michael Moore's mastery delivers laugh-out-loud funny scenes, and, then, with the whiplash tension of a rapid car chase, it wrenches tears from the viewer's eyes. Master magician that he is, Moore educates even while he entertains. You'll know more about the American health care system after watching this movie than after reading many a newspaper article.
So far so good. The problem is that, as ever, Moore is selective in his truth telling. Moore compares America's monstrous and demonstrably murderous health care system to better systems in Canada, England, France, Cuba, and Norway. Moore is correct, and statistics back him up - if you compare statistics in industrialized countries on infant mortality, life expectancy, and level of health, by all important measures, Americans suffer from an abysmal health care system.
The problem is this. Not only conservatives, whom Moore rightly blames, are responsible for America's mess; Limousine Liberals like Moore himself are *also* responsible.
It is acceptable to promote an idea of national identity in Cuba, France, and Norway. If you feel that your next door neighbor is like you, and if you feel that you and your next door neighbor are part of the same team, you are more likely to pay into a health care system that protects your next door neighbor. Limousine Liberals helped to destroy America's sense of national identity, and the sense that all Americans are on the same team. Multiculturalism, hyphenated identities, and "hate America" ideology, combined with American individualism, atomized Americans. Sadly, Michael Moore is now supporting for president the poster child of hate America first ideology - Barack Obama, of Never-been-proud-of-America / God-d--n-America / black-supremacy fame. Limousine Liberalism drove Americans apart from Americans, and that is a big reason we don't have national health care.
Another key factor Moore never so much mentions, an omission so egregious it weakens his entire thesis, is the impact of the welfare state on African American families and employment, and on all Americans' understanding of national health care.
There are many thinkers, including African American ones (read, for example, Walter E. Williams), who insist that welfare destroyed the black family and work ethic. Illegitimacy among African Americans skyrocketed with the introduction of welfare, and employment plummeted. Americans are wary of big government programs exactly because of what happened with welfare. Moore may not like this fact, but if he wants to be successful in making the case for national health care - and I hope he is - he has to be part of increasing a sense of national identity that Americans can be proud of and feel invested in, and he has to explain how national health care will avoid the pitfalls of the welfare state.
Movie Review: WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Sicko really opened my eyes as to what the health care industry is doing to the American public. It was especially appalling to see how many politicians(and who) are in the pockets of big pharmaceutical companies!