"Grizzly Mountain " preaches to the converted about conservation and the glories of nature, damning real estate developers as it tells the story of two children who travel through time back to 1870 in Oregon, where they discover that shortsightedness and greed are not recent additions to the catalogue of human flaws.
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One form preaches to the converted ( the Mime Troupe, Bread and Puppet ); the other form ( " The Naked Eye " and Larry Gelbart's " Mastergate " a few seasons back at ART ) aims to send up actual political events and often ends up bordering on situation comedy . ( After all, how can you satirize so scripted an event as the Republican Convention ?)
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It's the work of an artful polemicist, yet his earlier " Bowling for Columbine " is a better film, using all the wit and ploys at Moore's command to persuade audiences that America's lax gun regulations are absurd . " Fahrenheit " doesn't entirely preach to the converted ( seeing Bush's seven-minute silence after learning about the 9 / 11 attacks may be startling even to his supporters ), but it comes close.
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Taylor's questions concerned the visibility of men in drag and leather who because of their frequent appearances as representative of the gay community in news reports " led the straight media to treat gayness as extraordinary, and therefore had to seek out vivid representatives of it in order to confirm their own per-constructed idea of it " and also his belief that the programme may adopt divided aims in an attempt to appeal to both " uncomprehending straights " and its desire to " preach to the converted ".
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Or maybe a film about the ultimate failure ? ", also writing that the film " is less a work of investigation ( or activism ) than history . " Rob Nelson wrote, " Focusing on the war itself, Ferguson is chiefly interested in compiling a filmed dossier of incompetence not so much to argue that the war could have been won and won early, but to suggest that the magnitude of arrogant irresponsibility will carry aftershocks as far into the future as the mind can imagine . " Nelson also said, " Ferguson's approach is at once relentless and, with the help of Campbell Scott's flat narration, chillingly calm and composed . " Nelson wrote, " The evidence speaks for itself, and " No End in Sight " & mdash; addressed to those who'll be swayed against the war by ineptitude more than immorality & mdash; is the rare American documentary that doesn't appear to preach to the converted, or at least not only to the converted ", also saying " For those of us who've opposed the war for years, the movie is at once intensely frightening and, it must be admitted, disturbingly reassuring . " Roger Ebert of the " Chicago Sun-Times " gave the film 4 stars and said " This is not a documentary filled with anti-war activists or sitting ducks for Michael Moore.
