Underplayed Gems

Manufacturing Dissent (2007)

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Directed by
Rick Caine, Debbie Melnyk
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
R
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 25 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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Canadian filmmakers set out to make a biography of Michael Moore but grew disillusioned with his methods. Their documentary challenges Moore's use of misleading tactics by gathering on-camera complaints from people who felt wronged by him. The film mimics Moore's own style as the directors pursue him for an interview to answer the charges.

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What happens

Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore is a 2007 documentary film. It puts forward that filmmaker Michael Moore has used misleading tactics, primarily using on-camera statements by interviewees with personal grievances against Moore as proof. The documentary attempts to expose what the creators say are Moore's misleading tactics and mimics Moore's style of small documentary makers seeking and badgering their target for an interview to receive answers to their charges. The film was made over the course of two years by Canadians Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine after they viewed Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore's controversial film that attacked the Bush administration and its policies. Melnyk and Caine have stated that when they first sought to make a film about Moore, they held great admiration for what he had done for the documentary genre and set out to make a biography of him. During the course of their research, they became disenchanted with Moore's tactics. The title is a parody of the book Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, and the film it inspired. In June 2007, Liberation Entertainment Inc. signed an exclusive deal with the filmmakers for all video and theatrical rights in the US & UK. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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