Every audience in every theatre will inevitably react to a film in a quasi-unique way. After viewing Fahrenheit 9/11 in a St. Catharines Cineplex Odeon theatre last night (which was PACKED) a few interesting things caught my attention. First of all, as the credits started to roll, the audience broke into a huge ovation. The only other time I’d seen something like that was at the end of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Even those who stayed sitting in their seat, stunned by everything they had just witnessed were almost involuntarily clapping their hands‚Ķ like their bodies just had to react to what they just witnessed.
The second interesting thing I noticed as we were all walking out. Everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE, was talking about the film. Complete strangers stopped in the foyer to discuss the film and they’re own personal takes on it. No one was talking about where to go for drinks, or who was going to drive the babysitter home, or what they want to do now.
Regardless of what people think of Moore, or what political party they support, or what their political views are, Fahrenheit 9/11 is a “film” (see my article coming in the next few days where I ask if documentaries should actually be considered movies at all) that WILL make you talk about it, it will make you think, and one way or the other, it will instantly slightly increase your interest in political future of the United States. I’m going to go eat some cereal now.
