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Michael Moore, director of ¡°Fahrenheit 9/11,¡± delivered to Korean viewers a message in which he wished them to carry on a campaign against the dispatch of additional troops to Iraq. Michael Moore issued words of hope and pleading in his first official press conference since the release of the film at the Essex House Hotel in New York with about 200 local and foreign reporters present.
According to Cinema People, the company in charge of the PR for the movie in Korea, Michael Moore was asked whether he wished to convey any messages through "Fahrenheit 9/11" to the Korean viewers, who are mired in controversy as a result of the nation's decision to send troops. Moore answered, ¡°I hope Korean viewers start a social campaign against the dispatch of additional troops to Iraq.¡± Asked what he thought of the Korean government's decision to send troops to Korea, however, he simply answered, ¡°I don¡¯t know.¡±
He also said that Japanese people should act against Japanese PM Koizumi¡¯s support for Bush¡¯s dispatch policy. ¡°Fahrenheit 9/11¡± won a grand prize at the Cannes international film festival in France this May with the anti-war and anti-Bush movie digging into the business relationship between the Bush family and Osama Bin Laden family. This movie has been at the top of the box-office records since its release in the U.S. on June 25 and also set a best box-office record in documentary films. It is going to be released in Korea on July 22.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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