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The award-winning box office hit "Fahrenheit 9/11" is coming to Spencer this Thursday, a showing at the Senior Center building at 7 p.m.
The free showing is sponsored by the Concerned Citizens Coalition
of Roane and Calhoun
Counties and the Roane-Calhoun Peace Coalition, according to member Chuck Wyrostok.
One of the most controversial and provocative films of the year, "Fahrenheit
9/11" is Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore's searing examination
of the Bush administration's actions in the wake of the tragic events of
9/11.
It won Best Film Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
With his characteristic humor and dogged commitment to uncovering the facts,
Moore considers the presidency of George W. Bush and where it has led us.
He
looks at how - and why - Bush and his inner circle avoided pursuing the
Saudi connection to 9/11, despite the fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers were
Saudis and Saudi money had funded Al Qaeda.
Fahrenheit 9/11 shows us a
nation kept in constant fear by FBI alerts and lulled into accepting a piece
of legislation, the USA Patriot Act, that infringes on basic civil rights.
It is in this atmosphere of confusion, suspicion and dread that the Bush
Administration makes its headlong rush towards war in Iraq and Fahrenheit
9/11 takes us inside that war to tell the stories we haven't heard,
illustrating the awful human cost to U.S. soldiers and their families.
Wyrostok says the group is welcoming all regional residents who have not viewed the film in the theaters. Free refreshments will be served.
Chicago Tribune: "Among the Movies Everyone Should See This Year,
"Fahrenheit 9/11" Heads the List."
Fox News: "A Really Brilliant Piece of Work, and a Film that Members of All
Political Parties Should See Without Fail."
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