01 October 2012

Shut Up and Sing (Barbara Kopple & Cecilia Peck, 2006)

7/10
Pretty interesting documentary about the flap the Dixie Chicks caused a few years ago with Bush and all. The amount of flak they got for such an innocuous comment is, of course, ridiculous to the point of being absurd and a pretty embarassing portrayal of a particular kind of Americans, to say the least. It's obviously meant for Dixie Chicks fans, which I am not, so I wish it had focused even more on the political and artistic ramifications, but still pretty eye-opening as to just what the extents of "free speech" really are.

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