Esce oggi nelle sale italiane Farenheit 9/11, il film di Michael Moore vincitore della Palma d’oro a Cannes. Vi propongo un pezzetto (il finale) di un articolo scritto da John Berger sul Guardian (uno dei più diffusi giornali inglesi)di oggii. Penso di andare col Massi stasera o domani a vederlo…come dire...vorrei esser Richie Cunningham....

“There is something else which is astounding. The aim of Fahrenheit 9/11 is to stop Bush fixing the next election as he fixed the last. Its focus is on the totally unjustified war in Iraq. Yet its conclusion is larger than either of these issues. It declares that a political economy which creates colossally increasing wealth surrounded by disastrously increasing poverty, needs - in order to survive - a continual war with some invented foreign enemy to maintain its own internal order and security. It requires ceaseless war.
Thus, 15 years after the fall of communism, a decade after the declared end of history, one of the main theses of Marx's interpretation of history again becomes a debating point and a possible explanation of the catastrophes being lived.
It is always the poor who make the most sacrifices, Fahrenheit 9/11 announces quietly during its last minutes. For how much longer?
There is no future for any civilisation anywhere in the world today which ignores this question. And this is why the film was made and became what it became. It's a film that deeply wants America to survive.”