In this blog post. I will be discussing Michael Moore's film, Where to Invade Next. In the film, Michael Moore visits other countries to learn about their policies on things such as vacation, healthcare, schooling, drugs, and incarceration. He focuses on wanting to bring all of the ideas over to the United States in order to make the country better. In the documentary Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore focuses on the differing policies on vacation, healthcare, schooling, drugs, and incarceration between the U.S. and other countries. For example, in Italy, every citizen is given thirty-five days paid vacation a year. In Finland there are no standardized testing in the schools and the students are rarely given homework and in Slovenia, university is free. In Portugal, drugs have been decriminalized so you cannot get arrested for drug usage. In Norway, the prisoners are incarcerated in normal homes faraway from society instead of prisons because they believe in rehabilitation. Moore expressed his desire to steal all of these ideas and bring them back to the U.S. However, when he did so, the people he was talking to all informed him that most of the ideas originated in America. However, there is no guaranteed paid vacation for any person unless their company provides it and it’s usually only two weeks at the most. All schools in the U.S. get ranked by how well their students perform on standardized tests such as the PSSA. There is no free school in the U.S. at all. A large part of the prison population in the U.S. are incarcerated because of drug use or possession. In the U.S., prisoners are mass packed into giant buildings made of concrete with cells that lock and armed guards. Moore establishes ethos when he visits Italy because they spoke about how without the vacation that they are given every year, they would not be as happy and would be more stressed, more sick, and less likely to work as hard. He establishes logos when he is visiting Portugal and he is learning about how drugs are decriminalized there, meaning you cannot get arrested for doing drugs. They explain that arresting someone doesn't help that person stop doing drugs, if anything it makes them want to do it more because they lose any support they've had if they do go to prison. He appeals to pathos when he is in Germany and learns that the students are taught extensively about the Holocaust so that they may learn from the past mistakes so it may not happen again. Also, they show how every house that was owned by a Jew in Germany has their names out front of it in brick on the ground. Moore's telos, or aim, is to inform the audience of different ways of living that seems foreign to the U.S. now, but was originally our ideas. The kairos in the film appears every time Moore is ready to leave, he announces that he is stealing their idea and bringing it back to America.
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