Had a strange dream, woke up this early due to a wonder trip seeing Michael Moore's Sicko, much more breath-taking than most dramas I've seen.(That's what a good documentary works for people, I suppose.) In that dream, I heard a voice repeating:" All the good stuff is here! Oh, amazing!" Then woke up and couldn't fall back sleep listening to the sound of rain outside, or just leaking of our building recently.
A word well said inside: “Choice depends on the freedom to choose.” Leaving alone the main theme “the de-function of the National Universal Medical Care Plan” Michael Moore tried to convey, at least a movie which gets so deeply involved into revealing something about the government is not banned and gets a formal publication. This fact really stirs me. Here in China, we are so used to the underground situation of supposed-to-be-public works (books, publications, movies, songs etc .). Some works, as far as I know, only reflecting the true life of the people and the times, without a judgmental view towards political or economic system, get banned & prohibited immediately, like most of Jia Zhangke's movies do. I really like this movie, it makes you reflect upon the native issues while getting to know the difference in foreign countries.
A few things in the movie amaze me the most:
1. Comparison between UK, France, even Cuba and US in terms of medical, family care & education.
2. The ridiculous combination of health care insurance with assigned doctoral permission & legal interference.
3. The scene in Guantanamo is killing me! SO let's play according to your rules.
4. Anti- Michael-Moore blogger's anecdote serves a fabulous example in approving this issue universal, a very good personal note.
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