An Antiwar Movie
A "war indictment every bit as moving and powerful as Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" without the divisive politics and snide jokes": 'I Know I'm Not Alone'
It was precisely "the divisive politics and snide jokes" that weakened Mr. Moore's film. Had he played it straight, people outside the hard-core Left might have listened to him. "I Know I'm Not Alone" looks to be a far better film.
I recognized director and star Michael Franti's name from two 80s/90s acts that I listened to when I could stomach such genres as hardcore punk and hip-hop: The Beatnigs and The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. I saw the former in 1988 with perhaps a dozen people in a small Buffalo, NY club called "The Pipe Dragon" that catered to the Straight edge* crowd. Their intelligent music epitomized the best and worst of the Left, striking a true note with songs like "Television: The Drug of the Nation" but going astray with a pro-gay, pro-abortion agenda.
*How dark indeed must 1970s mainstream culture have been to have produced a "no drugs, no alcohol, no sex" counter-cultural movement?
A "war indictment every bit as moving and powerful as Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" without the divisive politics and snide jokes": 'I Know I'm Not Alone'
It was precisely "the divisive politics and snide jokes" that weakened Mr. Moore's film. Had he played it straight, people outside the hard-core Left might have listened to him. "I Know I'm Not Alone" looks to be a far better film.
I recognized director and star Michael Franti's name from two 80s/90s acts that I listened to when I could stomach such genres as hardcore punk and hip-hop: The Beatnigs and The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. I saw the former in 1988 with perhaps a dozen people in a small Buffalo, NY club called "The Pipe Dragon" that catered to the Straight edge* crowd. Their intelligent music epitomized the best and worst of the Left, striking a true note with songs like "Television: The Drug of the Nation" but going astray with a pro-gay, pro-abortion agenda.
*How dark indeed must 1970s mainstream culture have been to have produced a "no drugs, no alcohol, no sex" counter-cultural movement?
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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