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European premiere: Michael Moore’s new Film at the 66. Berlinale

“Where to invade next” shows the US Director during a trip through Europe and North Africa. Moore celebrates the achievements of European societies and makes his home look old.

Michael Moore is not to be overlooked. His Berlin visit he had to because of illness to cancel. But on the canvas it will appear in full size. The heavyweight Americans, so it seems, at least, a few pounds gained since his last great performances a few years ago at the festival in Venice, where he “Capitalism – A Love Story” at the Lido had in mind.

Five years have since passed, his latest prank “Where to invade next” is celebrated in the autumn of last year a world premiere at the Festival in Toronto. Now, the Film for the first time in Europe to see at the Berlinale, a few days later he comes in the German cinemas. No other documentary film Director in the world is so popular, his appearances as high-profile.

These gentlemen have Moore not shipped to Europe

Michael Moore: no conventional documentation

“Where to invade next” went to the Premiere in Canada of reputation in advance, the Director have his fun and most humorous Film. But a funny Michael Moore movie is always a movie where the audience Laughter stuck in my throat remains. The had the Director even with his great success of “Bowling for Columbine” (2002, about the Waffenbegeisterung the Americans) and “Fahrenheit 9/11” (2004, about the climate in the USA after the terrorist attacks of 11.September 2001) is proved.

Moore’s documentaries are One-Man Shows, aggressive towards its Subject matter, revealing, funny, cynical, not well-balanced, but always entertaining. You remember in their Aesthetics more akin to television reports of private TV providers than to traditional documentary films.

Michael Moore is this time in van

Also in “Where to invade next” maintains the Director, his cinematic principle and, with the camera on his interlocutor directly approaching you with questions and facts to confront their own reactions and those of his interlocutor. But this time is slightly different. “Where to invade next” is not the accuser movie, at least not in the traditional sense. Moore has embarked on a journey in eight European countries and Tunisia and there is each advanced, urbanized developments and processes.

In Italy, it is the ratio, which can be employers to employees, maintain that in France there are the benefits of a healthy diet, in Germany it is dealing with its own history. In Norway looks Moore on the best humane penal system, in Slovenia, on the free studies, in Tunisia, he takes the rights of women in an Arab society in the focus.

The loser in the cosmos of Michael Moore are always the USA

Moore discovered – which was of course the Intention of the film – only benefits, advanced, and exclusively positive social conditions. At the end of each episodes there is but one loser: the USA. The developments in Moore’s home country, whether in education or the penal system, whether in terms of nutrition or in dealing with their own history, in comparison with Europe, is downright pathetic.

In Italy comes to Moore, especially with Wirtschaftsbossen together

“The United States of America are ashamed and desperate. Since the 2. World war the most powerful Nation in the world, no more war decided for itself”, it means the start of “Where to invade next”. Moore counts: Vietnam and Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya etc, The balance is terrifying.

The must now have an end – says the Director in his own brutal, humorous way: The only Invasion, for the time being of the United States should be he himself. So Michael Moore is on to Europe, armed with a U.S. flag, which he, at the end of his quick tours into the soil of the countries of rams. Main weapon moor with his “Invasion”: to be mercilessly quick mouth.

The Director praises in Germany, the relation to history

In Germany, Moore is fond of the people dealing with the Holocaust. He visited the memorial for the murdered Jews in Berlin, looks back on the history lessons in German schools. All this he compares with the United States. How to get there with the murder of the Indians? As one stands on the question, that the country is “on the backs of black slaves built”? All the asks Moore – and the answer is always clear: the United States will cut a miserable.

Moore criticized the conditions in US prisons

The North American education system is, in comparison to Finland, it is positively antediluvian. The diet in North American schools cuts in comparison to France, pitiful. The conditions in the prisons of the USA are, compared to Norway, are deeply inhuman. And even from the Finanzcrash and the collapse of the Lehmann Bank would have the Americans learned nothing -in contrast to the Icelanders, even before the financial collapse, and during the aftermath of the financial crisis, according to Moore’s view, to have done everything correctly.

Moore: Originally preserved native American achievements

But a ray of hope there at the end but in the U.S. that are critical of sweeping blow of Michael Moore. Many of the achievements of civilization were once in the USA invented and has been introduced as the Director. However, if they were then in the course of the story disappeared.

Factory workers in Chicago have once workers ‘ rights only into the consciousness of the Nation lifted. The American women had it been for equality and self-determination. And also the right to humane treatment of offenders, whether by the fathers of the American democracy many decades ago, which have been designed.

“Where to invade next” is also an appeal to preserved native American virtues

“The American dream lives on,” it says at the end of the “Where to invade next”, but only outside of the USA. But there is hope. Because the United States were generated yet – so Moore – on the principles of democracy and human rights, of humanity and friendship. That Moore with his journalistic and cinematic approach is a little easy to power – given.

He would have, for example, on the execution of sentences in France, on many economic developments in Italy or also to the increasing radicalisation of German society from the Right looked, the result would have been different. But perhaps you wanted Michael Moore to the Europeans in times of the EU and the refugee crisis only courage.