  urlLink because he made apache helicopters? wtf kind of logic are they using? because they don't like the u.s. being in their country and they want the saudi government to release some prisoners, they think they're justified in cutting off this poor guy's head? it's only by making the kind of gigantic interprative leap common to fanaticism that such retribution makes sense. not coincidentally, michael moore makes a similarly logic defying claim in bowling for columbine when he tries to infer that the proximity of missle building factories to columbine high school had something to do with what went on there. we see stock footage of initmidating war nuclear heads juxtaposed with everyday shots, meant to make us understand that a nihilistic vibe was thick in that area. he doesn't bother with any actual statistics regarding teen violence in the many other american towns and cities who play host to the various franchises of the defense industry.
who needs numbers or third party reports when you present your images as some kind of raw truth, the way only a documentarian can? the only problem is, bowling for columbine is not a documentary in the tradition of letting the subject do the talking. in bowling for columbine the subject is a thesis , a certain interpretation of events and not the events themselves. don't get me wrong. i DID really like looking for roger, or whatever his flint, michigan movie was called.
he let the town do the talking without pandering to them, and managed, for the most part, to keep the suffocating weight of his moral agenda out of the picture. not so with bowling for columbine. we'll see what happens with the next one. yeah, i'm going to see it--unlike the passion of the blood drenched christ i dont' feel as bad forking over 10 bucks for mm. 
