I just returned from a matinee viewing of Fahrenheit 9/11 and will spare you the overwrought analysis other than to say it is probably one of the most important films ever made. See it immediately.

I cried at several points during the viewing. Everybody did. It’s one thing to know your country is being run by a murderous fascist dictatorship, but it’s another to see several hours of relentless evidence. Tensions were running high.

After the show, as the audience filed out, shock and horror on every face, a screaming fight broke out between a man and the woman who sat in front of him and had apparently talked during the movie. The man threw the remainder of his drink in the woman’s face, then they started hitting each other.

“You’re a liberal!” shouted the man.

“You’re not even human!” shouted the woman.

Some other audience members tried to restore peace; some just stared, uncomprehending, at the violence and walked glassy-eyed out into the cloudy daylight.

We live in terrible, terrible times.

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