BLESSINGS, COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS, A GRATEFUL HEART ATTRACTS MORE JOY, LOVE AND PROSPERITY.

THE 57th Cannes Film Festival ends today on a highly political note following the announcement that Michael Moore's polemical documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 has won the Palme d'Or.

Two years ago, Moore went home with a minor prize for Bowling for Columbine, but this time he seemed genuinely surprised and thrilled to be awarded the top prize by jury president Quentin Tarantino on Saturday.

Moore's film – about the Bush presidency and its response to 9/11 and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – pulls no punches in depicting George W. as a duplicitous buffoon. The links between the Bush and bin Laden families (both of them in the oil business) are explored in some detail and a great deal of footage is devoted to the carnage in Iraq, which is depicted more graphically than we've seen it on television.

But this powerful film's most disturbing scene is one in which a couple of marine recruiting officers, in full dress uniform, prowl the parking lot of a shopping mall in a working-class district looking for unemployed youths who might be persuaded to fight for their country. It's sobering stuff, as Australian audiences will see when the film opens here in July.

MAN I AM BUSTING TO SEE THIS MOVIE. WHILST MOORE HAS MILLIONS OF CRITICS, THE MAIN THING TO REMEMBER IS PERHAPS THERE MAYBE SOME UNTRUTHS TO WHAT HE SAYS AND PORTRAYS BUT, WHAT ITS WHAT IT REPRESENTS THAT IS FACT.