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 Sicko (DVD)
Description: Genre: Documentary / Theatrical Release: 2007 / Director: Michael Moore / DVD released 07 January, 2008 at Optimum Home ... more  Sicko (DVD) ... Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL / Michael Moore’s latest documentary may see him moving his sights away from the purely political arena, yet he loses none of his bite in the process. And with Sicko, a slanted, at-times devastating attack on the American health care system, he’s made one of his best films. The problem, of course, for a UK audience is that it’s a very American system that Moore is attacking in Sicko. He’s out to highlight the number of people with health insurance who are getting perfectly legitimate claims turned away, as the companies concerned get fat off the profits. But there is a British angle, as Moore presents a surprisingly idyllic take on Britain’s own health service, that does sit in the midst of the film’s flabby middle section. Yet when Moore points Sicko at the very people the system is letting down, his skills very much come to the fore. He puts forward passionate, partisan arguments with an incendiary style that few working American documentary makes can come close to matching, and it makes Sicko compulsive viewing. Whether you agree with the man’s politics or not, his films are provocative, very well made and hard not to admire. Sicko is no exception. --Jon FosterNewest Review: ... humour, heartbreak and sensationalism to make an interesting documentary. For example we are told the story of one man who ... more ... had two fingers sawn off in an accident. He was told that it would be $60,000 to re-attach one of them, $12,000 for the other. Naturally he went for the cheaper option.
But on the other hand you have a woman who has had to sell her home to pay for her medical treatment. Despite being honest and working, she and her husband are reduced to living in their daughter's spare room.
Sicko is full of people who have been faced with illnesses that they thought they were covered for only to be told that they weren't through s...more |
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Sicko (DVD): Moore, Moore, Moore! (631 words)
by utero - written on 13/05/08 (Very useful, 65 readings)
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Ohhhh that Micheal Moore, he's like Marmite in America, they either love him or hate him. With Bowling for Columbine he showed the rest of the world some of the insanity that America displays when it comes to firearms. With Fahrenheit 911 he tapped into paranoia around terrorism and in return reaped box office gold. Sicko sees Moore go back to another one of the things that doesn't make America the land of the free - healthcare. In the UK we often moan about the state of the NHS but when you watch something like this you end up being a lot more thankful that we have such a system in place. You see in America, healthcare is not something ...
Which finger will you pay for? (1040 words)
by shaneo632 - written on 29/02/08 (Very useful, 37 readings)
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Director: Michael Moore Cast: Michael Moore Release Date: June 22nd, 2007 (US), October 26th, 2007 (UK) Certificate: PG-13 (US), 12A (UK) Love or hate Michael Moore, it's difficult to deny that he knows how to make a persuasive, and more to the point, entertaining documentary. Whilst his Fahrenheit 9/11 was far less compelling than the wildly witty Bowling for Columbine, Moore's latest film, Sicko, a scathing commentary on the American health-care system, seeks to return Moore's acerbic wit and relent in pushing the political trundle-wheel. Moore's jovial tone is very much abundant mere moments into Sicko, highlighting the absurdity ...
Sicko (DVD): The Land of the free...unless its healthcare... (1733 words)
by thedevilinme - written on 11/02/08 (Very useful, 84 readings)
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Michael Moore's documentaries tend to be like Les Dawson's piano playing - he hits all the right notes (the facts), but not necessarily in the right order (continuity), but we secretly know they are both fine performers in their own right but it wouldn't be funny any other way. In 2004 the outspoken fat lumbering slob to many seemed to polarize America with his outstanding and award winning Fahrenheit 911, highlighting the Bush Administrations alarming incompetence around the September 11 attacks and their uncomfortably relationship with the nation that had just attacked them, the Saudis, where as here he has back on more popular ground attacking Americas ...
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