Movie: We, Unauthorized Arundhati Roy documentary

From the movie's website:

"We is a fast-paced 64 minute documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation. It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest.

Witty, moving, alarming and quite a lesson in modern history. We is almost in the style of a music video, featuring the contemporary music of Lush, Curve, Love & Rockets, Boards of Canada, Nine Inch Nails, Dead Can Dance, Amon Tobin, Massive Attack, Totoise, Telepop, Placebo and Faithless. The music serves as wonderful background for the words of Ms. Roy and images of humanity in the world we live all in today.

We is a completely free documentary, created (and released) anonymously on the internet."

The movie is very thought-provoking, challenging, and the images and music are very powerful when combined together. Everyone should watch this at some point when they have enough time, because there is something for everyone to take from it. The part about Israel is particularly poignant right now.

I don't agree with some of what she has to say or how some of the images are presented, but it is important. Some of the points are very stinging and make me feel ashamed, and some are exaggerated or disingenuous. There is far too much material in the movie to address every point, some of which I could never refute and some I refuse to dignify. There is much to think about here though, and I want to leave people to make their own conclusions about the film. It is good to be jostled and challenged, and this project certainly does that.

I've written thousands of words already about my reaction to this movie and debated many points of it, but I didn't post any of that here because I think everyone should watch it first. It will outrage many people and I'm sorry if it does. But there is value to this film, and I wouldn't post this if the film was deceptively manipulative and inaccurate like a "Fahrenheit 9/11."

The movie can be downloaded as a WAV or iPod file, or watched via streaming video.

http://www.weroy.org/watch.shtml