Sicko (Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Sicko (Special Edition)
Movie Review: WOW !! Have we been screwed
Summary: 5 Stars
The rich get richer and we take it in the shorts. This is one of the most informative videos that I have seen in a long time. The straw that broke the camels back was when a backward third world country has better medical facilities than in the U.S.A and takes care of our heroes with no questions asked when our country turns there back on them......so so sad it makes you sick to your stomach!!!!Movie Review: Cold, hard truth.
Summary: 5 Stars
This video is amazing. It is full of emotion-stirring imagery and accounts of all that is wrong with American Health Care...or the lack there of. There is so much out there that we do not know. This documentary brings it all to light. Granted, these are some of the worst cases out there, but with over 25,000 entries submitted...how do you filter? Regardless, these are all accounts that should not be in any system. Especially if that system touts itself as the Best of the Best. With so much wrong with the world today, or at least this country, it refreshing to know that there are people out there trying to fix it. Michael Moore may be controversial...but you have to ask yourself, is it because he is nothing but a radical...or is it because he's telling us the truth that we dont want to hear? This video truly leaves one 'sick' ...but it shows us that we have a long way to go, and there is a lot that needs to be fixed. I recommend this video to anyone. Time to wake up people!Movie Review: Whether you like Moore or not, he got this one right.....
Summary: 5 Stars
It is probably difficult for many people to like Michael Moore in anything after some of the junk he has produced in the past. However, setting that aside, I think ALL OF US in America should watch his new DVD, "Sicko". It is a shame that so many people of this great land do not have health insurance when we claim to be the greatest nation on earth. For the cost of 2 days of the war in Iraq there could be health insurance for every American. Moore takes you into possibilities and opportunities thrown away by our politicians to help its citizens on this matter. He discussess all of the excuses Washington and the White House makes for the non socialism of medicine in this country. For the most part, the documentary is well done except in a few parts. One is, no matter what the reason, he should never have endangered the lives of the folks (in his craft) by approaching Guantanamo Bay Military Base for any reason. Military bases operate under strict regulations and are no place to petition anything. I enjoyed very much learning about Cuba and other lands which have full health coverage for all of their citizens. What is it now, almost 50 years since we have seen live feeds from that island. Yes, he does have a few fudge factors to help his plea, but for the most part, surprisingly he is accurate on data. For personal taste and importance of this movie, Moore surely could have thought of a much more appropriate title, but who knows why he does these things. guyaireyMovie Review: Sicko
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a must see movie for the entire country. If you are ill, or have ever needed medicial attention, see what is possible if America stops talking down socialized medicine.Movie Review: More "fiction" by Michael Moore.
Summary: 1 Stars
Definition: Documentary: Giving a factual dramatized report of a subject or activity. (Oxford American Dictionary). It is too bad so many people
are fooled by Michael Moore. Moore creates his "own reality" by taking
film and editing it to fit his own agenda and propaganda. "Sicko" is another of his biased films to advance his far left politics. I suggest
the reader go to the library and read "The Battle of Ideas" by Patrick Symmes in the May, 2008 issue of "Harper's Magazine" about his many trips to Cuba over the years including 2007. As regards Cuban health care, here
are some quotes from this article: "Doctors leave the country, even for
South Africa or Haiti. They don't care where they go. ...There are hardly any doctors here now." "The hospitals are destroyed. They build one, but in days it falls down." "Cuba has a lot of ancient hospital equipment."
"Afraid of being sent to a psychiatric hospital." "The police took him to a psychiatric ward and injected him with unknown drugs." What Moore showed in the film was for the priviledged elite and rich tourists in Cuba not the common people who must deal with conditions noted above.
As to general conditions in Cuba, a few other quotes from the article:
"...the phone system is so bad that telegrams are still in common use."
"Cuba has banned satellite dishes." "Fidel Castro had specifically denounced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as counter-revolutionary trash." "In Cuba you can't have books in your house to lend to other people...in Cuba you can't have independent libraries because nothing can be independent." "Cuba routinely imported sugar from Brazil (2007)" - of course, once its main product. "When you see a parade in the street, you would think everyone is a revolutionary. But tomorrow they'd all leave for France, Spain or the U.S., and you'd see they are not so revolutionary. We're hostages of the system. People wear masks, to fit in. ... The economic situation is worse, the food situation is worse, much worse." "Cubans are living in an era in which we have no present, and no future." There is much more in this approximately eleven full page article but conditions in Cuba are very bad, books are burned, there are at least 280 political prisoners and the people barely scrape by to just survive. The average income in Cuba is about $17.00 a month. Michael Moore, not to mention Sean Penn and other leftists, should be ashamed.