Our feathered friends the penguins are living proof that 2005 has been a good year for documentaries. Between March of the Penguins, Rock School, and Murderball, documentaries are continuing to run strong – a trend that has been going on for several years now. With the continued success of the genre, the anniversary of the events that inspired his biggest film, and a national catastrophe still unfolding in Louisiana, it’s no big surprise that famed anti-establishment documentarian Michael Moore has re-emerged from whatever muck he’s been hiding in for the last few years.
Moore, famous for his anti-Dubya film Farenheit 9/11, has announced that he’s seriously considering documenting the Hurricane Katrina aftermath for another attack on the Bush administration. Moore told the New York Daily News, ”There is much to be said and done about the man-made annihilation of New Orleans, caused not by a hurricane but by the very specific decisions made by the Bush administration in the past four and a half years.”
With everyone from serious news to “The Today Show” exploiting the situation in our Gulf Coast, it should pretty much be expected that Moore would show up as well. After Farenheit 9/11 Moore was looking for whatever excuse he could find to continue his attacks on the President and his administration. The real question to ask is whether Moore will disappear back into obscurity once Bush leaves office, or if he’ll try and extend his fifteen minutes of fame by riding on the coattails of future administration issues as well.
