tonycb

Hard to offer coherent praise. The film is just superb. Its premise is a missile, probably nuclear, is fired at the US and it follows the reactions of the main decision makers involved in responding. It's structured as three separate stories covering the same decision period of around half an hour they would have to make their decisions.

It's a horror film without any blood or supernatural creatures. The horror is the small moments of people confronting what nuclear war means for them.

The script is never histrionic and acting is perfect. Be afraid, be very afraid...

Sicko is comfortably the best researched Michael Moore film. For those who don't know about health systems (probably most viewers of the film!), Canada, the UK, France and Sweden are examples of the main approaches to health systems that are as different from each other as they are from the US. What they share is they are better (cheaper, more equitable, have better outcomes with less intervention) than the US. In effect the movie is showcasing the variety of better alternative approaches to healthcare available to the US.

This is one of my guilty pleasure films. It is repeatedly laugh out loud funny. Morticia's "pastels" comment being one of my movie favourites.

The film is nominally for children but is very much a grown ups film with its sexual innuendo and knowing jokes. The movie is mostly about the conflict between Morticia, the true mother versus Jelinsky, the outsider. As all 80s and 90s films, the "family values" win. But, of course, these are not normalfamilies' values...

Not until the recent Jenna Ortega "Wednesday" has there been a version of the Addams family this clever.