john_n_kina
Being a lover of movies and documentaries, I just had to write a review of this propaganda disguised as a pseudo-documentary I found in the garbage bin on Amazon. Featuring lots of stock footage and narrated by some dude who's just preaching to the choir in his "let's-dumb-it-down-for-the-kids" voice (which speaks volumes of his intended audience), this garbage was made back in 2010 when white Christians were terrified by lame Faux News and other "conservative news" programs because we had a black President. Well, now it's 2017 and the prayers they were programmed to wish for have been answered. Unfortunately, we all have to live with the mess they are only getting started on.
overmood
Propaganda is the art of fear. Propagandists play on the fear of the masses, building a seemingly fault proof structure of a giant Goliath in the form of their adversaries, giving themselves the moral right - or so they pretend - to vilify them and call for their destruction. What propagandists conceal from their audience is their own fear, however. The only reason they have resorted to this tactic is that they, deep down themselves, are sure that they cannot win the hearts and minds of people any other way.When looking at this documentary given this context, we see a conservative propaganda spending a lot of time criticizing and vilifying a Goliath of their own fabrication constituting of liberals, progressives, socialists, communists, and pretty much every one but themselves. In doing so, they connect some real dots with plenty others imaginary to complete the picture, and in doing so, they are showing a mixture of paranoia and ignorance that is sometimes genuine but mostly fake. Ironically, the tactics this movie endorses are the same tactics it criticizes. But it doesn't matter to the producers, as what only matters is that "God is on their side."The hypocrisy of conservatives notwithstanding, the documentary shows some element of truth when discussing the link between communism and totalitarianism - a well known historical fact. But what's so deceptive about it is that it puts everything in the same basket of totalitarianism: fascism, communism, environmentalism, socialism, feminism, unions, gay rights advocacy, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism...you name it. And when you are waiting eagerly for the facts to unravel throughout the documentary to validate such encapsulation, you are presented by none except some names of Obama advisers with leftist background (used to build the case for the Communist conspiracy), and the same old rhetoric about the Bible, the hand of God, the founding fathers, and America "the greatest nation in the history of the whole world."What's missing verbally from this documentary can be easily read between the lines uttered by the obsolete interviewees: mainly ultra nationalism, war mongering, sexism, classism, and - of course - a lot of hypocrisy. In one time you hear an interviewee lamenting a socialist leader for being against the Vietnam war, then after five minutes or so you hear another interviewee talking about how only the Judo-Christian culture value all human beings, both opinions being used as evidences of the documentary's thesis.Watching the whole of a documentary with a lot of nonsense and mumbo jumbo is not an easy task., but the rewards make the effort all worthwhile. I have always been perplexed by the strong inclination of religious conservatism towards free-market capitalism instead of other forms, and I have always seen it as their last stand to make hold of their obsolete ideas. For without the shield, that is huge funds, they would stand bare naked in the battle of ideas, in which truth is the only judge. And as I have seen in this movie, they wouldn't stand a chance of winning.
silverbackrogers
I made an account just to write a review on this....I don't even know what to call it. There is no truth in it and all the info the narrator provides has been twisted and modified to fit his agenda. I think even the most radical Christian can see through this hate filled movie. I've looked up some of his so called 'quotes' and see that he has altered them to make them sound the way he wants and not the way they were intended to be read. Doing this is no different than taking parts of the bible out of context.....but I guess, in his eyes, its OK to do that as long as it isn't the bible.I hope people watch this movie just so they will see what kind of hateful people still live out there.
