This story tells about a Dallas redneck getting converted into an advocate for universal health care during a screening of Michael Moore’s Sicko.
It’s but one example of many being reported on the internet of how the film is galvanizing Americans into action.
In all my thirty years on this earth, I have never ever seen any movie have this kind of unifying effect on people. It was like I was standing there, at the birth of a new political movement. Even after 9/11, there was never a reaction like this, at least not in Texas. If Sicko truly has this sort of power, then Michael Moore has done something beyond amazing. If it can change people, affect people like this in the conservative hotbed of Texas, then Sicko isn’t just a great movie, seeing it may be one of the most important things you do all year.