Johnny Come Lately

Well, I finally bit the bullet and saw Fahrenheit 911. I'm heading to the UK next weekend, and I know that many friends there have seen it and will want to discuss - i.e., debate - it, so I took myself off to a matinée showing earlier today.

I'm not going to attempt an assessment or critique. I've come so late to the film that many others have probably made exactly the same points that I would make. Nonetheless I'll mention two things that struck me.

The film is mis-titled; it should be called "George W. Bush" or somesuch (or even have the words "Michael Moore" in the title - his own "The World According to Garp").

Secondly, I await, with interest, Moore's planned sequel, focusing on Tony Blair (or was Moore actually rather noncommital about a Blair film? Read and judge for yourself). It will be a real narrative and cinematic feat of prestidigitation to present a plausible confluence of motives and interests between Blair and the gangsters depicted in Fahrenheit.