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Best movie of 2007
Aug. 17th, 2007 11:58 pmYeah, it's only August, but I'm gonna call it. If there's one movie you should see this year, that movie is Sicko.
It's better than Bowling For Columbine. It's definitely better than Fahrenheit 9/11. Health care affects *everyone*. Sooner or later, you or your loved ones will need looking after, and then it makes all the difference in the world whether or not you can get the treatment you need.
A system where health insurance companies deliberately deny people treatment in order to maximise profits is utterly vile, but in the US it is real. Seeing a 79 year old man hauling rubbish because he needs the medical insurance his employer provides - hearing a mother tell how her little girl *died* because she was turned away from the hospital - witnessing the richest country in the world literally dump its poor and sick onto the streets - it was shocking, and it was enraging, and some of it made me cry. And the contrast with the countries that do provide universal health care! Seeing the way their people were looked after in their time of greatest need, just as a matter of course, made me want to stand up and cheer.
I cannot recommend this movie highly enough. It is powerful and moving and revelatory, and it will make you think, and it will even give you hope that we can change things for the better.
It's better than Bowling For Columbine. It's definitely better than Fahrenheit 9/11. Health care affects *everyone*. Sooner or later, you or your loved ones will need looking after, and then it makes all the difference in the world whether or not you can get the treatment you need.
A system where health insurance companies deliberately deny people treatment in order to maximise profits is utterly vile, but in the US it is real. Seeing a 79 year old man hauling rubbish because he needs the medical insurance his employer provides - hearing a mother tell how her little girl *died* because she was turned away from the hospital - witnessing the richest country in the world literally dump its poor and sick onto the streets - it was shocking, and it was enraging, and some of it made me cry. And the contrast with the countries that do provide universal health care! Seeing the way their people were looked after in their time of greatest need, just as a matter of course, made me want to stand up and cheer.
I cannot recommend this movie highly enough. It is powerful and moving and revelatory, and it will make you think, and it will even give you hope that we can change things for the better.
