Review of Where to Invade Next (2015) by Arnol T — 17 Feb 2016

I have not seen all of Michael Moore's movies; this one is so good that I will now see all of them, just for a points of comparison. This one absolutely is a must-see: the crisp images are frequently stunningly beautiful, capturing ordinary human faces and revealing the inner beauty of real people.

The title of the movie does not do justice to the content. Moore is not out for a pseudo-military conquest; rather, he is documenting the good things that other countries do for their citizens, things that the USA either did at one time or another and failed to try.

Examples include: the healthy lives that result from government policies focusing on the workplace and the amount of time workers are given to be free of work; amazingly healthy school lunches provided to children; free education provided for university students; the empowerment of women in Iceland and the trial and imprisonment of the male Icelanders who brought Iceland's financial system down (in stark contrast to what has happened in the USA); the success of Finland's elementary school system.

I guarantee that this movie will have you thinking long and hard about what has happened to our country and how our own complacency and failure to elect good officials and policy-makers has allowed us to sink to such comparatively low rankings on various indices of quality of life.