Sicko

I implore you to place your political issues aside and watch this powerful documentary. Love him or hate him, Michael Moore flipped the conventions of documentary filmmaking, and with this film he shows the most restraint as he presents how the health care industry has affected America’s health, pocketbooks, and most importantly, our fears. Moore occasionally takes some unnecessary jabs that take you out of the film and at times you can’t help but wonder about the flipside to other nations’ health care systems that he presents and raves about. Regardless, this film will not so much have you shaking your head at how corrupt and thoughtless the HMO industry is, but particularly how our government has created a system that has us as Americans in fear of cost instead of our health when an incident or diagnosis occurs. With greed as the core center of this issue, Sicko is never more as relevant as we face this current economic crisis in 2009. I give Sicko 4 out of 5 severed fingers.