Extended Reading
  • Madelyn 2022-01-04 08:01:38

    Why didn't I become a doctor

    The year I first entered university, it coincided with the preparation of the medical school, and actively recruited the first batch of students. At that time, it was said that the eight-year MD program was jointly cultivated with Xiehe Hospital, which sounded quite tempting. However, after...

  • Francisca 2022-03-22 09:02:07

    Medicare in the United States of America? That's it?

    Friends, if America is gone one day, don't feel sorry for it. This is what the American politicians did themselves. If you have a friend who wants to go to the US, recommend him to the movie "Sicko", which is guaranteed to put him off the idea. "Sicko" is more of a documentary than a movie. It...

  • Pietro 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    Big fat American angry youth!

  • Jimmie 2022-01-04 08:01:38

    Although other people's systems are not as beautiful as one-sided, but compared to the Americans' own medical insurance system, it is indeed much better to feel from the most basic point of view. What this film points out is a crux that cannot be ignored, and it is highly expressive. Even though Mike Moore’s pan-realistic documentary with a strong personal style makes some people feel uncomfortable, the editing out of context, avoiding the full exaggeration, only part of the exaggeration, subjective tendencies and emotional actions, it seems that these are all incompatible with traditional documentaries. . But in such an unprecedentedly flood of information society, people should have more thoughts about the information they receive, instead of blindly asking the communicator to take full responsibility.

Sicko quotes

  • Rick: So this is the table saw. It was spinning that way.

    Michael Moore: [narrating off-screen] This is Rick...

    Rick: [continuing] I was gripping a piece of wood and I grabbed it here and it hit a knot...

    Michael Moore: [narrating off-screen] He sawed off the tops of two of his fingers.

    Rick: And it was that quick...

  • Michael Moore: There are nearly 50 million Americans with no health insurance. They pray every day they don't get sick because 18,000 of them will die this year, simply because they're uninsured. But this movie isn't about them. It's about the 250 million of you who have health insurance. Those of you who are living the American Dream.