Fahrenheit 9/11 premiere in Berlin. More then 2000 people including German politician J?rgen Trittin showed up to the open air showing.

As I was standing in front of the Turm Palast (Tower Palace) theatre in Frankfurt, watching the line for Fahrenheit 9/11 getting longer and longer, I noticed that even here, there were two people sitting in a corner next to the entrance of the theatre hall, registering US voters. All movies shown on German TV and in most theatres are dubbed in German, thus making places like the Turm Palast that don’t dub, very popular amongst the many Americans living here and those like myself who rather watch movies in their original language. To my surprise, they showed the movie in tower 1 (the largest movie hall they have in the multi theatre complex). Now, you have to understand that they usually show only the huge blockbuster money making movies in that hall and i’ve been to some of those in that very hall…..I had NEVER seen it THAT full. Fahrenheit 9/11 is more than a mere movie. It is an experience. People laughed, people sobbed, people applauded twice in the middle of the movie and finally at the end. One other thing I noticed that i’d never seen before was oh so diverse and vast age rage of my fellow movie goers, ranging from somewhere around 14 to 60. Before the movie started there were two young people sitting behind me talking about Half Life (a first-person shooter game) and the two elder people in front of me talking politics.

I understand now why some people say that this is a movie that all people should see no matter what their political views are. Not simply because this clear anti-corruption/anti-Bush documentary is excellently made and shows you things you never thought possible, but rather because if you don’t, you’re admitting defeat before the truth and a weakness in character.

Michael Moore by no means has hate for his country and anyone that claims otherwise has either not seen this movie or is unwilling to face the truth…or is just too “republican” to see it.

Many of the things Moore brings up in this movie were written about, in his book “Dude, Where’s My Country”, but sadly this is not exactly the ara of book readers and thus the movie was an excellent idea to convey his message in these times.

I’ll end this post with the last words from Fahrenheit 9/11 - a quote by one of the greatest thinkers and writers of the 20th century; George Orwell:

It’s not a matter of whether the war is not real, or if it is, Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.

-George Orwell in the book “1984″