I delivered about 5 copies of SiCKO on DVD to friends and relatives a week or so before its release. Not one of them has watched it yet.
What's going on?
Maybe they HAVE watched it, but don't want to talk about it. They claim not to have watched it for a pretty consistent reason - "don't have time."
I guess I could take it at face value. People are busy, after all. But one recipient actually said they didn't want to watch it because they would be depressed.
As for the others (some Republican, some not), I wonder if they are of the same attitude as church officials who refused to look through Galileo's telescope in 1610 - they fear it will damage their world view. The world view that the USA is truly number one in all things.
Could this attitude be depressing turnout for SiCKO? A deliberate obstinacy to see something which would shatter their ideas about the inherent goodness of the "Greatest Healthcare In The World"?
Or is 13 million so far considered a pretty good gross for a documentary?
Have any of you experienced this phenomenon in your acquaintances? People who simply refuse to watch it on ideological grounds, or even fear that it will send them into a depression? The latter I could understand. The former just seems beyond backwards.