Posting on behalf of Shannon (Blogger's giving her a hard time!):
I agree with the article in The Onion that it was an unfair hit on George Bush when the film made him out to be a fool for staying in the room with the schoolchildren. As much as he is our president, he is still human. Time is needed to think through a situation and develop the best way to handle the chaos. Also it is hard to imagine that he could know the magnitude of the situation. I think his staying with the schoolchildren was understandable. He was able to think, remain calm and keep others, especially the children, calm.
I thought the portrayal of the attacks was well done. It showed the raw emotion of those who witnessed the attacks without showing the buildings. It was a very artistic move that made my heart feel like it was falling apart. Even though I had obviously known about the attack and had seen the footage time and time again, it was a new version, almost like seeing it for the first time again. Moore assembled the footage in this way to do just that, and he did a good job at it.
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Here are some other factors to consider, Shannon, about the Bush-reading-to-children scene: he was already aware of the first plane having hit -- a major disaster -- so he can't claim to have been hit completely off-guard; he had a team of his staff with him, including his Press Secretary, to whom he could have given orders while he remained in the classroom; he sure did look unsure of what to do; and 7 minutes is a pretty long time under the circumstances to not even have uttered a word about what happened (to anyone). This is not to say that Moore wasn't unfair: but I think he meant this incident to be emblematic of Bush, which is why he pumped it up so.
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