>Yeah, Moore played with the timelines in Flint for dramatic effect, but the
>real truth of despair and decline he documented was far more "true" than the
>nitpickers who capture the prose of life without its poetry. No one should
>take Moore too seriously as a scholar but he operates far more in the world
>of art, so people rightly give him a lot more slack.
It's one thing if Moore makes movies with complicated characters that viewers see in complicated ways. That's what makes him a good filmmaker and not a hack propagandist. It's another thing if you say x% of the budget goes to a fighter plane when it's actually x/10%. That makes you look like an idiot or a liar.
Doug