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Manufacturing Dissent (2007)
An intelligent, provocative and, arguably, even necessary examination of the phenomenon of Michael Moore -- the man, his movies and his methods -- "Manufacturing Dissent" is not an assault by right-wing ideologues but a dissection by two self-described "progressive liberals," and has all the more impact for it. Canadian documentarians Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine draw heavily upon interviews with Moore's critics, acquaintances, former colleagues and longtime observers to fashion an even-handed but largely unflattering warts-and-all portrait of a firebrand filmmaker who's described here even by a purported friend as "a bit megalomaniacal at times, with a paranoid tinge."
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Manufacturing Dissent Movie Review by B Movie Ben  (3/24/2008) |
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I don't watch documentaries because I believe in a cause, I watch them to get informed. Sometime they may run counter to what I perceived to be the truth, and that's OK. If I learned something, then the film is worthwhile. If I was entertained at the same time, then that's cool.
Here, I learned something and was...
(complete Manufacturing Dissent review by B Movie Ben)
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