Um olhar acerca do medo como arma de guerra: Fahrenheit 9/11 de Michael Moore

• Autores: Lilian Victorino
• Localización: Avanca / Cinema 2012 / Cine Clube de Avanca (dir.), 2012, ISBN 978-989-96858-2-6, págs. 767-774
• Idioma: portugués
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• Resumen

  • This paper reflects on the discursive strategies used in the movie Fahrenheit 9/11 by director Michael Moore.Examining the movie’s main characters and groups, we extract the various meanings proposed in the movie’srelation to society. The movie presents the relations between American and Saudi businessmen in the oil andarms industries, which, under the political influence of the Bush family and of members of the Republican Party,found in the September 11 attacks the starting point for a lucrative was on Iraq, under the pretext of a democraticstruggle. The movie suggests that a culture of fear, largely cultivated by Americans, legitimized the war throughthe mobilization of public opinion and of members of the Senate, who finally approved the necessary budget forattacking a nation that, according to the movie, was never a threat to the USA.