In the documentary “Where to Invade Next”, Michael Moore travels to multiple European countries and interviews people to bring back ideas to improve the United States. Here I will write a rhetorical analysis of the film. Moore discovered that many countries other than the U.S. offers paid maternity leave, free college tuition, and thriving middle classes. Things in which our country is currently struggling with. With all of his traveling, Michael Moore came to conclusions that these principals began here in the United States but became lost and never found again.
Moore first traveled to Italy. There he discovered they receive eight weeks of paid vacation on top of paid maternity leave and paid honeymoon for newlyweds. In Italy, the whole month of August is a complete shutdown. In France, Moore discovered students have a full hour to eat and set up their lunch. They also focus on sex education differently than us Americans. Frances’s pregnancy rate is 2x lower than the United States. He visited Finland where it is ranked #1 for education. They believe in no homework and only have a 20 hour school week. They believe kids should still be able to be kids and play and interact. When Moore visited Slovenia, he discovered they have a free college system. Colleges are tuition free. Many American students travel to Slovenia to go to College with out inquiring any debt and the country is ok with that. When he went to Germany, he saw that the German’s have a thriving middle class. Warehouses have windows to keep the employees happy while at work. They also have a universal health care system and close to free child care. In Portugal, using and selling drugs is not a crime. By decriminalizing, drug use went down. Portugal also has a free healthcare system. They also believe that the death penalty is against human dignity. In Norway, they treat prisoners as normal human beings. Prisoners have the right to vote. The longest possible prison sentence in Norway is 21 years. In Norway, prisoners have about a 20% rate of being rearrested as apposed to the US of being 80%. Moore visited other European countries not to only seek about woman’s rights and free healthcare and so on but to bring up that all of these ideas were once American idea’s that just got lost and haven’t been found.
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