Sicko is a 2007 documentary film created by Michael Moore that criticizes the American healthcare system.
This film provides examples of:
- Bilingual Dialogue: Moore does this with the French, who can understand his English.
- Citizenship Marriage: The ending combines the citizenship and insurance variations by imploring American viewers to marry Canadians in order to take advantage of their universal health care system, even setting up
a spoof website
(which seems to be undergoing Defictionalization) to the effect. - I Was Just Joking: Moore learns France has a free service where households can receive daily visits from a government employee who will give childcare tips. Moore jokingly supposes that they'll do the laundry while they're at it... ultimately leading to a Gilligan Cut of an incredulous Moore observing one of said caretakers doing laundry.Moore: "You from the government?"
- You Won't Feel a Thing!: One of the tag lines for the film (a documentary about health care in the US and around the world) is "this may hurt a little". Promotional materials also use "get well soon!"
