11/6/2017 2 Comments Summary of Where to Invade NextThis weeks blog post is a summary about the documentary Where to Invade Next. The documentary is about a man Michael Moore who travels the world and “invades” certain places in search of certain things.
In the documentary Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore travels to different countries with the quest to steal other countries ideas. His plan was for every country he visits he would discover ideas that each country would do that America doesn't and “steal” the idea to bring back to America. The first country he “invades” is Italy, where no matter who you work for or where you work you are given 8 weeks paid vacation. The people of Italy believe that the more vacation workers have the less stressed they become therefore a better product outcome. Not only do they get way more paid vacation than Americans but they also get 5 months paid maternity leave in order for the mother to be with their babies for the start of their lives. The next place Michael visited was France. In France school lunches are prepared by actual chefs. Not only are they prepared by chefs but they meet with actual nutritionists to discuss if the lunches fit the nutritional requirement. American lunches are a half hour or maybe forty five minutes at the most, but not french schools, they have hour long lunches to give the kids time to eat. Also, in America lunches are served on styrofoam trays were as for France they give the school lunches real china that needs to be washed and taken care of. Your would assume that with the classier lunches they would have to spend a lot more than American schools, but no they actually spend less then schools in America do which in a way is mind blowing. Then, Michael was off to Finland where school is only twenty hours a week. In the documentary Micheal talks to a principal of a elementary school about the amount of time kids are at school compared to the time they are playing. The Principal states that she would rather them be playing and finding things in nature, then later ask questions and to be learning that way then, to be sitting in school all day. Slovenia was the next country for Micheal to go. In Slovenia they have free collage for everyone. While in Slovenia, Michael interviews a college girl who is originally from America but she can there for the free college because she was no longer able to afford college. Even though she was not a Citizen Slovenia stuck to their word of Free college for everyone, and gave her free college. After Slovenia Michael went to Germany. In Germany workers have to only work 36 hours a week and still get paid enough to only have to work one job. If a worker feels as if they were stressed they were able to get a prescription from the doctors to go stay at a spa to cure their stress. Then, Michael went to Portugal where drug use was not qualified as a way to get arrested. In Portugal they don't consider drugs a crime therefore anybody using drugs there cannot and will not be arrested. Basically legalizing drugs Portugals drug use decreased after that. Next up was Norway where when people did get arrested they were taken to “prison” but for Americans it would be seen as a getaway. The reason why Norway believed in their system was because the “prisoners” were unable to see their families and friends. Then Michael went to Tunisia. In Tunisia they made it legal for women to get abortions they had free clinics and abortion clinics for women. The last stop was Iceland where they had the first ever female president. In Iceland they found that when women work or are in charge of more things, they tend to go more smoothly and chaos free. After Michael traveled all over to learn about what America needs to do to be better, he learns that lots of these ideas he wanted to steal, was already ideas that America had.
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David Miller
11/14/2017 09:34:27 am
Good summary, it was very to the point which is how a good summary should be.
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Julia Thornton
12/6/2017 05:02:49 pm
This is a very good summary of the film! I still can not get over how well the children eat lunch in France. I am very jealous.
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