Where to Invade Next

LOVED this movie. Much of it I already knew, but I learned a lot of new things. Most people in the U.S. have no idea how other countries live. Unfortunately, the people who would benefit most from opening their eyes and seeing this movie are the very people who won't see it.

Loved it too.  What's amazing is that many of the ideas used in other countries originated in America.  We seem to have lost our way. 

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/19/where-to-invade-next-michael-moores-latest-examination-of-american-exceptionalism/

nan said:

Loved it too.  What's amazing is that many of the ideas used in other countries originated in America.  We seem to have lost our way. 

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/19/where-to-invade-next-michael-moores-latest-examination-of-american-exceptionalism/

Yes! That was an interesting point that he made. He said that a lot of other countries are the "lost and found" of American ideas.

I'm a fan of MM, but this movie was patronizing and silly.  

Really?  I thought it was informative.  I was amazed at how much, despite the internet, I did not know about daily life in other countries.  

krugle1 said:

I'm a fan of MM, but this movie was patronizing and silly.  

why was that? the movie serves an important purpose in informing people about how life in the U.S. comparatively sucks - the big problem is that people who need to see the movie will never do so.

What did you like best? I liked it all, but school lunch in France was amazing.

The prison systems.  Unthinkable here.  And, of course, the way they sent all the bad bankers in Iceland to jail and voted in women to run the country.

I thought it was terrific. Funny and informative. A family movie.

Great movie, and a Maplewoodian in the credits . . . Jacob Ribicoff.