This blog post will provide a summary of Michael Moore's film Where to Invade Next, also it will provide a rhetorical analysis of the film.
Throughout the two hours journey of Michael Moore, he "Invades" different countries across the world, mostly Europe with the goal of "Stealing" their best ideas and applying it in the united states so they could benefit from it. Michael Moore starts the movie by claiming that the united states was built on invading other nations to steal their resources to get stronger, and that it should be getting better by applying great ideas from other countries instead of invading them with military forces. Moore collects ideas and stats such as paid vacations in italy and its positive impact on workers, the impact of legalizing drugs and how it decreased drug related deaths in Portugal, the violence percentages by former prisoners in Norway and he moves on towards showing one of the top education systems in the world as well as showing countries where women could have more power and how is that affecting the country in a positive way. Michael Moore compares every idea he "Steals" into what is in place in the united states leaving the judgment to the audience after presenting those ideas in a very persuasive way. Michael Moore establishes ethos in the movie by interviewing people who have an authority or a good knowledge on the topic he's presenting, for example when he talked about the decriminalization of drugs in Portugal he gave people the information through interviewing two officers and a drug user who presents us with the statistics that nobody was arrested in portugal in the past 15 years for the position of drugs and how it helped lowering the drug related deaths with the support of their rehab system and health care. The use of logos was there to persuade people throughout showing stats that would have the audience lean towards agreeing with the idea he is presenting, such as the tax statistics in france, the 8 week paid vacation in italy, the numbers of re-arrests happening in Norway and or the change of the education system rank between the United States and Finland how the U.S went from topping Finland into falling behind them 28 places. Michael Moore perfectly uses pathos to pull the emotional strings of the audience, an example of it would be the use of police brutality clips, the dramatic music, relating most issues to racism, showing american food pictures to french kids and showing the happiness of prisoners in Norway. Where to Invade Next Is an example of perfection when it comes to executing the use of pathos correctly. people who watches it for the first time are most likely going to get overwhelmed by their emotions and view America as a terrible place to live in which makes Michael Moore successful at gaining the audience on his side. Michael Moore's telos is to collect ideas he chosen and he believes it could make America better a place and present it to the audience in the most effective way possible to gain their support towards applying those ideas or getting as close to it as possible to it. I think the Kairos for Moore's film was a very controversial and sensitive time in politics, a time where the country was preparing for the election year and people needed were having really heated arguments about it. so Moore chose to release that film earlier that year to capitalize on those arguments by throwing different ideas that people could talk about and perhaps it would get big enough to get the attention of one of the running parties pushing them into making a decent change.
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