5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Opinions are like farts..., September 13, 2010
This review is from: The Listening Project (DVD)
While it was interesting to hear what a handful of people from around the world thought of America, the video also seemed a little too cliched and cheesy for me at the end. The somewhat stupid advice that 'Americans' should get to know more about Tanzania, India, Brazil etc etc etc and act like a 'Global Citizen' seems impossible to me. Of course it's easy for the rest of the world to know about the US. It's ONE country. The biggest, most successful one (so far). I highly doubt that the average citizen of India knows all about Italy...or Brazil about Afghanistan. Etc. In other words these people don't know all about EACH other either.
Also, isn't going around the world asking people what they think of America just a tad conceited? I mean if you think about it, can you imagine walking around your neighborhood, knocking on doors and asking the person that answers what they think of you. "Hello, I'm America, your global neighbor. Tell me all your many and various thoughts about me. Go ahead, I know you've been holding it all in, let it out."
I mean, supposedly, it's just a documentary that asks a question and lets people answer whichever way they want. Ha! Every documentary is edited for content though and choosing which clips to cut and air also gives the editors and 'directors' a voice. So...
Anyways, it was interesting like I said, FOUR whole stars! Whoo Hoo! even if (or maybe ESPECIALLY BECAUSE) I did find a million things to emotionally disagree with. I can see this film getting knee jerk love or hate from both sides of the widening chasm of political divide in the United States. In the end it made me glad to live in America, and more aware of human nature more than anything else. For that it stands out a film that is better than 98% of the mindless garbage out there today.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Reality Check for Insufficient Funds, July 4, 2010
This review is from: The Listening Project (DVD)
If you are so "proud to be an American", you should likewise be so humble as to watch this film, and get a crash-course of what it means to be a human being living on planet earth as it is now. Be willing to bust your cultural bubble and expand your perceptions, to take what is seen here with a little more than a grain of salt--this is how the world feels, and what the world thinks (sentiments which are not unsound or ungrounded)! Playing the game of haughty-obstinacy--in the context of a cultural superiority with an indefinite timeline of social dominance--is a sport for idiots, and you are definitely not that type of American, right?
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