RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

lreynaert This movie shows blatantly the all importance of free speech and the panicky fear of the powerful for it. Free speech can (and should) reveal inconvenient truths (the 'real world'), and it could (should) effectively undermine the power base of vested interests. That is also the reason why those vested interests control nearly all media outlets.In this movie, those in power (local business interests) were trying by ALL means to prevent a speech (only that!) at a college hall by a democrat (also Democrat), in the person of movie director and social agitator Michael Moore. They were afraid that he could influence public opinion (an overwhelming majority for the RP) and change the political majority and its agenda, although the chances were practically inexistent.As Saint Augustine said: 'Men love truth when it bathes them in its light; they hate it when it proves them wrong.'This movie is a must see for all those who want to understand the world we live in.

LydiaOLydia The ideologically bankrupt American populist right (not to be confused with intellectually honest, legitimate fiscal and/or social conservatives) has for many years now been handled with kid gloves. Social dialog in America has given serious consideration, for example, to such absurdities as given the "competing theories" of evolution and "intelligent design", "equal time." We have been browbeaten to accept obvious distorting blow-hards such as Anne Coulter as "columnists" and even "intellectuals." Here's the brilliance of Divided State: it doesn't take the kid gloves off (so it can't be accused of overt bias), but it does nevertheless show in no uncertain terms a clear dividing line between good and evil, between thoughtful and knee-jerk, between reasoned and ideologue. Without saying so explicitly, this movie very says loudly and clearly: these guys here are evil, greedy, manipulative buffoons and charlatans, while those guys are over there are decent and thoughtful.But who is who? By any standard, the heroes of this story are the Utah Valley State College (UVSC) student leaders who took a not unreasonable stand against the many biases of their closed community at large and the many students of all political stripes who had the intestinal fortitude and intellectual honesty to support them. The heroes were the ones who spoke not in slogans, but in ideas, and could back up their views with reasoned, nuance, and, as this theme deals with uniquely American topics, Constitutionality.By this and really any standard, the main antagonist, a local conservatively-minded resident, comes off as an absolute buffoon, and rightly so. The man was such a one-dimensional caricature of himself that I half expected a "kicker" at the end to be that he had done his actions as some sort of "test" to teach the students a good civics lesson (no spoiler here: he wasn't - he was sincere.) By this standard also, it's not too much of a surprise that windbag conservative host Sean Hannity also is far less than the sum of his salary might suggest when he is held up to the light.The true genius of the filmmakers, however, was to show how even the movie's Messiah of sorts, liberal wind-bag Michael Moore, was also a particularly naked emperor.There's a lot of good about this movie. See it.

invent I was one of the few non-liberals who showed up to see Steve's video. It was quite an experience... in propaganda film-making and boredom.I was hoping the film might be an actual documentary of Michael Moore's visit to my local school, UVSC, but it turned out to be another liberal, slash-and-burn effort to slam conservatives and the local religious community. It sure seems self-serving for a filmmaker to make a documentary that only reflects his preconceptions on issues.What's more surprising is to see all the '10' votes his homeys have posted here. Did they even see the video? Golly gee Batman, this must rank with All The President's Men! Their ratings are as obvious as the bias in this film. Yeah, like stacking the votes at IMDb will help a lame movie. Maybe my vote will help balance this out.

CormacMcBellow To whomever commented earlier on this film, by saying that a viewer should be justifiably dissuaded by not moving to Utah, in particularly the Provo/Orem area, after watching this film, you are merely perpetuating an equally intolerant mindset as the ones discussed in the film.I enjoyed this documentary, and would recommend it. It is pretty even keeled. The politics of the filmmaker are obviously left-leaning, but I don't think it detracts from the themes discussed/addressed by the film. Filters, filters, filters, right? I think more so than even the Michael Moore visit to UVSC, I enjoyed the religious implications that are discussed in the political gap of the LDS faith. I also enjoyed the subplot with the Joe Vogel and his eventual resign from the student body. This played out the effects that our decisions/intolerance/peer-pressure can have on friendships, as well as the social and cultural implications.