No Sicko For North Dakota
Aaron A. over at the Fargo-based blog Breathe is complaining about the fact that Michael Moore’s Sicko won’t be playing in any theaters in Fargo. Or in North Dakota at all. Which really doesn’t bother me one way or another. I don’t care if people see Moore’s film, nor do I care if theaters decide not to show it (Fahrenheit 9/11 was shown at my local theater here in the middle of North Dakota).
But what I found interesting was not so much the news about Moore’s film not being in my state, but rather the way Aaron complained about it. First, he says this:
I’ve been waiting to see Sicko, I’ll be waiting a while longer.
Although Micheal Moore is about as intellectually stimulating as the latest Grisham, and even though the movie is about what most educated Americans (who care) already know, I have been waiting to see what all the commotion is about.
So, Aaron admits to not having seen the movie yet, but he’s already concluded that it’s an accurate representation of our health care problem (for “educated” people, who are apparently only those who agree with Aaron). That’s…pretty small minded.
Second, while Aaron gets a dig in at Moore for not being “intellectually stimulating” enough (this despite his movie covering, by Aaron’s own description, a topic for “educated people”), he also complains about theaters not carrying it.
Apparently Aaron thinks the movie will be boring, but thinks theaters should be carrying it anyway. Why? Who knows. Apparently he feels that it is the responsibility of theater owners everywhere to carry films giving voice to accepted left-wing dogma regardless of their commercial appeal.
