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Movie Review: An Unreasonable Man

Someone please take my documentaries away from me! Again I only went to bed around 1 am after watching "An Unreasonable Man." This documentary starts out with Bernard Shaw's definition of unreasonable: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself." The movie is about Ralph Nader. So, I can already hear a lot people who get this confirming this definition and reaffirming their slurs, contempt, anger, etc. with respect to Nader. The documentary is full of the usual criticisms particularly from democrats.  But Bernard Shaw's statement goes on to say: "Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." And so the movie is about the life work of Ralph Nader. It is very important that everyone watch this movie and gain a new found respect for what Nader has done even if you disagree with his presidential bids.  One very interesting story in the movie was when the CEO of GM en