I think that Sicko is basically an exposure of Moore's point of view about the American failures on the healthcare system. Some of this failure include patients that must pay their treatments even when they have health insurance. This is called medically need and is just for emergencies. I found fascinating and so interesting that the filmmaker, Moore, introduces specific characters to exemplify main problems that those fifty million people are victims of, because they don't have healthcare (Moore,2007). I must say that this movie makes me realize this kind of issue that is being faced by the majority of American since more than a decade ago; which it's very sad and shocking to those fellows like me that were not aware of what exactly was going …show more content…
Michal Moore's style of presentation is convincing because he talks with people who were dealing with the health insurance problems. It is well organized because first, the filmmaker began in the United States where the health insurance problem takes place; then he goes to Canada, France, Great Britain, and finally Cuba. It is kind of humorous too when he thinks that England people are joking with him while being in Hammersmith Hospital. People who work in there and the others who were staying at the hospital too, because they were admitted there for some reason. They were affirming to Moore that they didn't need to pay not even a penny for their medical expenses. Moore was astonished. Moreover, Michal style is absorbing too, because covers the most important cases related to the health system, including those Americans who now then lived in Great Britain or Canada for example. The most important thing about Moore style is he is not just telling the story; indeed, he is going to local and community places of the U.S and other countries mentioned before, to interview those fellows who do not have medical help. From Moore's style of presentation, I admire how he takes a group of men and women …show more content…
Sicko is different, because it really shows what's going on in U.S.A. This film is not just telling desert stories, or survival ones in hard environments; instead, this documentary, Sicko, is presenting evidence of what happened to American fellows when they insurances is denied, or when they don't have one, or when bankruptcy occurs, and as a result many of them loose their homes and jobs. They life change 360 grades, some of them have to work until die to pay their drugs because health insurance does not cover his or her medicines. Health care situation in America is struggling. According to Moore's film there's above fifty million of American people without health insurance, eighteen thousands of them that could die that year ,2007, because they don't have insurance either, while two hundred fifty million do have insurance (Moore, 2007). There's this funny part in the film where there's a commercial saying'' And if you're not getting enough sleeping, take pharmaceuticals'' (Moore, 2007). Later other commercial comes out'' Yes, ask your doctor, and ask him for more drugs. That should keep you pretty doped up until it's time to retire. D-did I say retire? (Moore, 2007).
Almost doctors and physicians in the world have worked at a hospital, so they must know many patients’ circumstances. They have to do many medical treatments when the patients come to the emergency room. It looks like horror films with many torture scenes, and the patients have to pay for their pains. The doctors have to give the decisions for every circumstance, so they are very stressful. They just want to die instead of suffering those medical treatments. In that time, the patients’ family just believes in the doctors and tells them to do whatever they can, but the doctors just do something that 's possible. Almost patients have died after that expensive medical treatments, but the doctors still do those medical procedures. That doctors did not have enough confidence to tell the truth to the patients’ families. Other doctors have more confidence, so they explain the health condition to the patients’ families. One time, the author could not save his patient, and the patient had found another doctor to help her. That doctor decided to cut her legs, but the patient still died in fourteen days
If the name Serpico sounds familiar, it may be remembered from a movie. Frank Serpico is portrayed in the 1973 movie, “Serpico” starring Al Pacino. This movie may be loved by many but it’s important to realize that its characters are real men and the story line is very real. Although most police officers work very hard to do their jobs within ethical standards of the law, it is often not hard to find some type of corruption within a department.
Poor Kids is a documentary that highlights a major issue the United States is suffering from. This issue is known as poverty, more specifically, childhood poverty. This documentary views the world through the eyes of children that are subjected to lives of poverty due to the poor financial state that their parents are in. Life is very rough for these children and they must live their everyday lives with little to none of the luxuries most people take for granted. Poor Kids sheds light on the painful fact that there are children that starve every day in the United States.
Instantly, McMurphy radiates power and defiance that the other patients in the ward notably admire. He boldly challenges authority and battles conformity in the ward, determined to eradicate the authoritarian governance of the institution. He proves to be a symbol of defiance and gradually begins to beat out the authority in the ward. McMurphy’s influence on the other patients steadily grows as he singlehandedly instigates reform at the hospital.... ...
Health care in America tends to be a gray area for citizens without prior experience with medical issues. Michael Moore an American filmmaker discusses in his documentary “Sicko” the unpleasant experience some Americans had to go through because of our health care system. Moore implements humor to his documentary by inserting comical music, images, and narration in spots that help his argument gain attention. He also travels abroad to places like Canada, France, and Cuba, where universal health care is supported. He does this in order to provide reason why universal health care is a good ideas by capturing the different emotions and opinions of individuals in those countries versus what people think in America. In addition, Moore provides evidence on why the United States should adopt a different health care system by providing facts like the life expectancy and cost of health care in America compared to other countries. Michael Moore’s main goal is to inform the audience as well as introduce his argument that our health care system is inadequate and that better solutions are out there like universal health care.
The medicine men seem to be taking extreme advantage of the people he is supposed to be taking care of. They seem to be out for more selfish pursuits as opposed to really sincerely helping the people. I could not believe that the sick had to give gifts before they could be “helped” and after they were “helped.” The fact that they experienced immense...
The Bad and The Beautiful (1952) and State and Main (2000) are films within films that unmask Hollywood Cinema as a dream factory and expose the grotesque, veneer hidden by the luxury of stars. The Bad and the Beautiful, directed by Vincent Minnelli, is a black and white film narrated in flashback form. The films theatrical nature requires more close-ups than wide-screen shots to capture the character’s psychological turmoil. For example, Fred and Jonathan’s car ride is captured in a close-up to signify their friendship; however their relationship deteriorates after Jonathan’s deceit. While the camera zooms out, Fred stands alone motionless. Here, Fred is captured from a distance at eye-level and he becomes ostracized by the film industry and
While McMurphy tries to bring about equality between the patients and head nurse, she holds onto her self-proclaimed right to exact power over her charges because of her money, education, and, ultimately, sanity. The patients represent the working-class by providing Ratched, the manufacturer, with the “products” from which she profits—their deranged minds. The patients can even be viewed as products themselves after shock therapy treatments and lobotomies leave them without personality. The negative effects of the hospital’s organizational structure are numerous. The men feel worthless, abused, and manipulated, much like the proletariat who endured horrendous working conditions and rarely saw the fruits of their labor during the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom and United States in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century (“Industrial Revolution” 630).
To begin his juxtaposition he brought up the neighbors to the north, Canada, and how americans will pretend to live with a friend or family member who is a canadian citizen so they can get the treatment they need. He also brings up 18 month old Mychelle who was suffering from a 104 fever and was taken to the nearest hospital, where they refused to help her because they didn’t take her insurance. They rushed her to the nearest hospital that would treat her , but by the time the ambulance arrived Mychelle suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away. After tugging at our heart strings he introduces us to ZoÃ, who like Mychelle came down with a high fever and was rushed to the hospital where they immediately treated her, discovered she had a throat infection and finally gave her medication at no expense. The one difference between these two 18-month year old girls? Zoà and her mom live in France, a country with universal healthcare.Moore also anticipated objections, like the idea that people in America won’t want to be doctors because they would work for the government and it would pay less. Which Moore rebuttals with a statement from a Doctor from France who lives comfortably in a 3 story house with a beanz making over $204,351 a year.Here hes trying to prove that just becuase they work for the goveremnt doesn’t mean they won’t be paed
The film used outside sources like journalists and politicians to give statistics. This appeal to logic doesn’t help me accredit them because they use opinions to state an argument instead of data. When these self-proclaimed ‘experts’ are less than qualified with their professional experiences, they can pretty much say anything that they want, and we will believe them because they’re professionals and we trust that they are experts, when they don’t have a clue. Therefore, I believe that these professionals pick and choose what they can and cannot speak about. It would help if they were honest and clearer about their experience. The consequence of not being clear about their qualifications and standpoints is that the public mostly cannot know who is speaking sense and who is speaking gibberish. With such a dilemma in the United States we need people who are trustworthy; professionals that have the clinical experience and people who show that they’ve done their research, people who are
He continued to show the patients that the nurses were not in power in fact had little power over him. Inspired patients occurred once again he had inspired them with is lack of surrender to the wards system. With this situation in play this brought up McMurphy picking the needs of patients to motivate his own plan of
Sicko provides a good understanding of health care system in the United States. In my opinion, Michael Moore has done a great job in delivering his message. Though, some issues were not picked up in the film such as the amount of taxes people pay in these countries and waiting lists for certain medical treatments like cancer or heart transplant. It is also true that from many other countries people come to America for medical treatments, and this is because they are not being provided proper health care in their home country. However, the film provides a good understanding of the health care concept, and it makes me worried because I don’t have any health insurance.
... that it combined the perfect amount of medical history, scientific fact and storytelling; creating a brilliant account that kept me wanting to find out more. It was full of interesting information that helped me to understand more about the cholera epidemic and the views of public health and medical practice of the people in 1854 London.
The selection of movie I chose for the Sociology Movie Review was “Easy A,” the 2010 American teen comedy written by Bert V. Royal. The movie starting Emma Stone, who plays Olive, takes place in a California high school where gossip and lies seem to be like most typical American high schools today. With the setting placed in 2010, Olive’s life is portrayed with a best friend, Rhiannon, hippie parents, and an adopted brother. With the pressures of high school, Olive is put in a compelling situation with her best friend, Rhiannon.
I chose the movie “Sicko,” and while watching this movie I saw the different countries and how they went about the healthcare system. Starting with the United States, in order to receive healthcare you’re supposed to have health insurance which some can afford and others can’t. In the beginning of the movie different people went about the different reasons why they were denied health insurance and the different effects that it had on their life. For example, a man whose 79 years by the name of Frank Cardeal is insured by Medicare but it doesn’t cover all of the medication that he and his wife need. He works as a custodian and a business which covers his medication. I feel as though he should be laid back somewhere, but instead he’s stuck working