sentences:  Ebert argues that the point of the film is not to present a completely cut-and-dried presentation of facts, but to create a jumping point for interest and dialogue through use of humor and irony.Critic Billy Stevenson described the film as Moore's "most astonishing," arguing that it represents an effort to conflate film-making and labor, and that "it's this fusion of film-making and work that allows Moore to fully convey the desecration of Flint without ever transforming it into a sublime or melancholy poverty-spectacle, thereby distancing himself from the retouristing of the town-as-simulacrum that occupies the last and most intriguing part of the film.