The camera has proven to be mightier than the pen. Cinematic technology has reached such quality that we’ve begun to lose sight of the difference between the movies and the real world. Worse, we now prefer seeing the world through a Hollywood lens in 8-second cuts. We want to be shown what’s important and told what we need to believe, rather than have to pay attention and make those decisions ourselves.

For such a powerful medium its a shame that its usefulness has been limited except in rare circumstance to placation and subjugation. Its much easier to tug on someone’s sentiments than it is to try and change their mind - especially when you have to fight to keep their attention. That’s why 20 million people paid $8 to see Spiderman 2 last weekend. See, most people just don’t like to think — not that much anyway. When confronted with something they don’t understand, especially something that challenges basic notions, people can get afraid and angry. They lash out with irrational responses because they know they don’t have rational ones.

‘America’s Heart and Soul’ is a new documentary released by Disney in a see-through attempt to triage the effects of a movie they were otherwise unable to suppress. Apparently it is a “vacation where one can feel free to take the back roads and spend time sitting on a porch and talk to an old friend.” Though they insist it is not a direct response to Moore, these reader reviews reveal that Disney has nonetheless hit their mark.

This movie is a true documentary. It should be shown everywhere Moore’s blasphmey fictious movie is shown. This movie depicts the very best and most diverse of who we are. The America Michael Moore hates, the America the terrorists hate. I shed a few tears at the greatness of our wonderful land and its wonderful people.

This is exactly the kind of irrational response I was speaking of. The suggestion that Michael Moore hates America is simply ridiculous. Ever heard of Roger & Me? America is the only country where films like his could be made. Michael Moore loves this country, and like anyone who truly loves something he wants to make it better. He wants soldiers to stop dying for an immoral cause. He wants America to be a place where the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the rich.

I try not to write when I’m mad but ignorance really pisses me off. You can’t hold it against someone that they’re stupid but you can hold it against them if they don’t even try. It shouldn’t be so easy to pull the wool over our eyes! Ironically, rodrunr867 did say something intelligent. The people in America that Michael Moore hates are the Americans that the terrorists hate. The Americans who use poverty, religion, and fear to exploit the rest of the world. Moore just stands up to them in a kinder and more American way.