Completely OT : Cannes, Mickael Moore and the Iraq War

[Will]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Despite my pre-conceived opinion about Moore, I actually would like to go see the movie. I appreciate hearing opinions that conflict with my own, and if nothing else I'm sure it would be good for a few laughs. However, I can't sit through the graphic scenes. I understand he's got scenes of dead and mutilated Iraqi's as well one of the hostage beheadings. While I can understand why he feels the need to show this for shock value or whatever, I don't need proof that war is hell.

The graphic scenes are fairly brief. Probably the most graphic images is a approximately 10-second sequence depicting Iraqis dragging incinerated bodies (I'm pretty sure they're soldiers hit with a firebomb) through a street, then suspending them from street lights. The beheading scene is from footage that is several years old, and very grainy; I could only tell that it was a beheading from the text on the screen, since it looked more like a person getting hit with a baseball bat. The rest of the bloody scenes are fairly minor (IMHO, this may be from watching surgery/ER documentaries from a fairly young age), and most of it you can pretty much turn your head away from (the exception being the opening sequence, with black screen and audio from the hijackings).