Fahrenheit 11/9 | A Film by Michael Moore | 2018 | Full Movie
//Summary - Level-C2//
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) explores Donald Trump's presidency and the 2016 U.S. election. It critiques Trump's rise to power, media ties, racism, misogyny, and policies while linking his era to broader systemic failures, historical parallels, and societal injustices. Moore examines issues like the Flint water crisis and gun violence, ultimately arguing for America's need to rebuild rather than reform.
1)
Fahrenheit 11/9 is a 2018 American documentary film by filmmaker Michael Moore about the 2016 United States presidential election and Donald Trump's presidency until the film's release.
The film is a follow-up to Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), a documentary about George W. Bush's presidency.
2)
Despite grossing $6.7 million worldwide, one of the lowest grosses of Moore's career, Fahrenheit 11/9 received generally positive reviews from critics, and the film was nominated for Best Documentary Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America.
3)
Synopsis:
The distributor describes the documentary as "a provocative and comedic look at the times we live in", referring to the 2016 US presidential election.
The documentary follows Hillary Clinton's unexpected defeat and Donald Trump's presidency. It explores two questions: how the US got to the Trump presidency and how to "get out" of the Trump administration's era.
4)
The documentary begins by claiming that Trump's presidential campaign started as a joke to get more media coverage than Gwen Stefani, who was paid more than Trump to appear on The Voice than he was on The Apprentice.
Still, his racist remarks towards Mexicans and Chinese people and his belittling of America's current political policies on national television led NBC to cut ties with him.
5)
Despite this, he had gained a large following of supporters, which prompted him to continue his presidential campaign, after which NBC began to cover him again. Moore also focuses on several other issues:
6)
Trump's media connections who helped him with his campaign, most of whom were men who, like Trump, had a history of being accused of sexual misconduct against women either before or after the 2016 presidential election.
7)
Highlights of Trump's comments about women, particularly his daughter Ivanka, about whom he has stated on television more than once that he would date her if she were not his daughter.
The Trump Organisation's history of facing more than 4,000 state and federal lawsuits, particularly from African-American tenants who were illegally evicted from his apartments.
8)
Trump's support for the execution of the six alleged perpetrators of the 1989 rape of a Central Park jogger, even after their innocence had been proven and their convictions overturned in 2002.
Trump's promotion of birtherism, including openly referring to then-President Barack Obama as a "village idiot from Kenya".
9)
Aside from the Trump administration, the documentary delves into some events that Moore believes are related to or inspired by Trump, such as the 2014 Flint water crisis, orchestrated by an appointee of Michigan's then-Republican governor, Rick Snyder.
The appointee switched the source from Lake Huron to the Flint River, resulting in toxic lead levels in the water.
10)
Moore also focuses on the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, which led to the March for Our Lives protest across the United States calling for gun control measures, and also criticises politicians who receive campaign donations from the National Rifle Association.
Another of Moore's targets is Barack Obama, whose visit to Flint in 2016, Moore says
Moore says he failed to meet the expectations of the people of Flint, who were expecting federal aid after the visit.
11)
Moore compares Trump's rise to power to that of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, parallels the Reichstag fire to the 9/11 attacks, and compares Hitler's speeches blaming different ethnicities, religions and sexual orientations for Germany's problems to some of Trump's comments.
He shows then-recent instances of unprovoked racial violence that he says were inspired by Trump.
12)
In the film's conclusion, Moore claims that the United States Constitution no longer protects ordinary Americans from the rich and powerful in American society and that the American Dream is now nothing more than a dream.
13)
Moore says that after previous US presidents, such as Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, the country needed to see a president like Trump to wake up to the reality of what he believes the United States of America has become: a country not worth saving but worth starting over.
Fahrenheit 11/9 | A Film by Michael Moore | 2018 | Full Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_heq6CkeMH8
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%AF%E6%B0%8F119
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_11/9
Fahrenheit 11/9 is a 2018 documentary film directed by Michael Moore about President Donald Trump.
It was the opening film of the documentary section of the 43rd Toronto International Film Festival and a unique invitation film at the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival.
The title refers to the 2004 film Fahrenheit 9/11, which criticised the George W. Bush administration, and "119" refers to November 9, 2016, when Donald Trump declared victory as the 45th president. It is often perceived as a criticism of President Trump. Still, it is a work that sharply criticises the unique American electoral system, the current economic situation, and the American society that led to Trump's election. For this reason, the Democratic Party and others have also been targeted for criticism, and Barack Obama, president at the time of filming, has been sharply criticised for his careless performance and flippant remarks regarding the contaminated water issue in Flint.
Add info No1)
Fahrenheit 11/9 review: Michael Moore v Donald Trump = stalemate
In his latest documentary, Moore's bewildered fury at the president is powerfully evident, but he fails to deliver a knockout blow
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/17/fahrenheit-119-review-michael-moore-donald-trump-documentary
Michael Moore is still reeling at the news of Donald Trump’s presidential victory. Who can blame him? There is integrity, even heroism, in this outright refusal to come to terms with it, to normalise it in his mind. That custard pie in America’s face landed on 9 November 2016 – 11/9. The date gives Moore a cute numerical reversal of his great movie from 2004, Fahrenheit 9/11, and that’s still a documentary that must be respected for calling it right on the war on terror, long before disbelieving in WMD became a bland article of faith among precisely those critics who disparaged Moore’s film at the time.
Moore’s understandable rage and bewilderment perhaps account for the flaws in this vehement but incoherent film. It restates bits and pieces of all the great polemic he’s given us over the last 20 years – guns, corporate mendacity, community betrayal, beltway culpability – and actually repeats his opening line from Fahrenheit 9/11. “Did we dream it?” he moans, to nightmarishly vivid TV footage of Hillary Clinton preparing for her coronation in 2016, like Al Gore in 2000. But Moore never quite settles on a single, compelling riposte to Trump, never really hones his arguments to a piercing arrowhead of counterattack. Instead, he rambles over almost everything … entertainingly, but confusingly, ending on an image of Parkland School shooting survivor Emma González.
First, he has to admit to fraternising with the enemy, in the days when Trump was just an unthreatening media joke. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner organised a launch party for one of his movies, and Fahrenheit 9/11’s VHS release in the US appears to have been managed by the grisly Steve Bannon, that dabbler in film production and distribution. And affecting to admire Moore became fashionable in the Trump camp, if only to discomfit Jeb Bush. Had he dwelt on this subject, Moore might even have wondered if the Trump-ites were effectively inhaling some of the Michael Moore spirit, mobilising for their own ends the outlaw scepticism that Moore did so much to encourage. It’s as if they took his trademark cap – and slapped the Make America Great Again logo on it.
This film’s strongest section shows him going back to his roots in Flint, Michigan. Moore is passionately angry at the way Michigan’s Republican governor Rick Snyder poisoned the water supply for Flint’s working-class communities in 2014, by insisting on a new, pointless pipeline for no reason other than to enrich his corporate cronies; Moore is of course angry at Snyder’s admirer Donald Trump, crucially emboldened by Snyder’s banditry, but also angry at President Barack Obama, for Obama’s failure to do anything to help while in office, and for fobbing off the residents with a dismayingly supercilious and patronising speech. Maybe the whole film should just have been about this. That Obama speech was indeed a shocker. Yet attacking Obama now feels like such a futile and self-harming thing for Moore to do.
Moore then moves on to Bernie Sanders, mightily messed about by the Democratic hierarchy, which conjured “superdelegates” to keep his name off the ticket. They assumed Sanders was unelectable. Trump’s victory makes that assumption look glib, and the Sanders presidency is now one of the great what-ifs of modern times. But Moore gives us post-Sanders signs of hope, by crying up the new wave of grassroots activism, as epitomised by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the fiercely intelligent and undaunted socialist congressional winner from the Bronx. Ocasio-Cortez and other bold activists are showing America the way. But Moore slightly clouds that issue, too, by noting mournfully that the electoral college system is rigged against them.
Then there is the question of the media, authentic news, and the queasy intimations of fascism. Trump incessantly attacks what Goebbels called the Lügenpresse, the lying press (although Moore is himself not above denigrating the poor old New York Times for misrepresenting Sanders’ fanbase), and, in his most studiedly outrageous provocation, Moore gives us a clip of Hitler with Trump dubbed over it. It leads to an interesting interview with Timothy Snyder, the historian and author of On Tyranny. But there again, Moore hits a false note. He talks about Hitler and his followers setting fire to the Reichstag to create a spurious crisis that would legitimise their seizure of power. Then he comes worryingly close to implying that 9/11 was the same thing. “Truther” conspiracy? Something else that isn’t helping the fight against Trump.
So, to quote Lenin: what is to be done? I think it will take some time for the penny to drop about Trump not creating a single new job in America. Moore tells us to keep the faith, keep fighting the good fight. That message is just about discernible in the fog of pain.
Add info No2)
"American Chaos" (subtitled version) delves into the background of the division in America during the 2016 presidential election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfokaVrGy1o&t=2631s
"American Chaos" (subtitled version) delves into the background of the division in America during the 2016 presidential election: "When I listened to them, I thought for the first time that Trump might win..." Six months before the 2016 presidential election. Democrat filmmaker James D. Stern travels around the United States to ask Republican voters about their thoughts on Donald Trump. [Synopsis] In 2016, America made an important decision that future generations will remember. What on earth happened at that time? Immigration issues, security, gun control, unemployment rates... The director himself conducted a vast number of interviews and observations to depict the "chaos" that lurks in American society. (2018)
Add info No3)
[US Administration Change] "There are no winners" in the tariff war: Canada, Mexico, and China react negatively to US President-elect's announcement of tariff hikes
https://www.bbc.com/japanese/articles/cg4l7391606o
On the night of the 25th, US President-elect Trump said he intends to sign an executive order immediately after his inauguration on January 20th next year to impose a 25% tariff on all imports from Mexico and Canada.
He also said he would impose an additional 10% tariff on Chinese products until the Chinese government stops the smuggling of fentanyl, a type of synthetic opioid.
Add info No4)
How will the exchange rate move under the Trump administration?
Japan's biggest concern is "additional tariffs on automobiles."
https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/840558?page=2
It is unclear how much of Trump's campaign promises will be put into practice, but if Trump were to implement all of the policies he wants to implement, namely, fiscal expansion, monetary easing, immigration restrictions, additional tariffs, and tax cuts, inflation would typically result. If inflation were to occur, interest rates would naturally not be able to be lowered, US interest rates would remain high, the interest rate gap between Japan and the US would remain wide, and the dollar-yen exchange rate would remain high.
With this scenario factored in, the yen is weakening due to speculative trading. Many people think that this will continue next year. However, in Japan, the supply and demand environment for the yen in the Tokyo foreign exchange market in 2024 compared to 2022 and 2023 is that fewer people want to sell yen. The actual selling of yen is not as powerful as in the past two years.
If the market is driven by speculation, it will collapse quickly, so even if the yen weakens, it is better to think of it as a period of six months to a year in which the price range will be pretty extensive.
Trump cannot tolerate the weak yen and Japan's trade surplus with the United States. He complained about it for four years before the last election, and during the campaign, he said that the weak yen was "a total disaster for America." I think this will be a scorching topic in the future.
However, as I mentioned, Trump's policy mix is one reason for the weak yen.
What will Trump think when he thinks it is outrageous that the weak yen has not been corrected and the trade surplus with the United States remains large? Probably additional tariffs. In particular, automobiles account for the majority of Japan's trade surplus with the United States, so I think Japan's biggest concern will be that they will ask for various deals while threatening additional tariffs on automobiles.
They tried negotiating like that under Abe (Japan's prime minister during the last Trump administration).
However, Japanese manufacturing companies, including automobile companies, have a record of investing significantly in the United States. Abe asserted this, but I think it is a point that should be stated appropriately under the Ishiba administration as well.
