YourDigitalJesus/Reviews

Monday December 18, 2006 - 2:07 PM

Category:

Movie

Director:

Heidi Ewing

Year:

2006

Genre:

Documentary

Average:

23 reviews

Jesus Camp (2006)
Directed by:
Heidi Ewing
Rachel Grady

Tagline: America is being born again

Plot Outline: A documentary on kids who attend a summer camp hoping to become the next Billy Graham.

MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some discussions of mature subject matter.
Runtime: 84 min / USA:87 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Certification: USAG-13

www.imdb.com/title/tt0486358/


YourDigitalJesus' Review:

Ok, so I've been staring at this blank page for about 10 minutes trying to figure out where to start. Really, all I needed to do to sum this up is to upload a video of my head exploding as i watched this.

Well, for those of you wondering why my head exploded heres a quick summary of the movie.

"Jesus Camp" Follows an Evangelical Christian youth pastor who runs a Christian themed summer retreat for children. At camp the young ones participate in such wholesome activities as; Learning how abortion is a sin against god, how science is all lies, and how their non-christian friends are going to hell if they don't "save" them.

The movie has no commentary of any sort by the directors and they have various interviews with all the fundies (see: fundamentalist -> see: "Bat Shit Crazy" that run the camp.

Thier views are fucking insane, to say the least. These kids are about 6-12 years old and they have another batshit crazy speaker telling them how Roe v Wade (landmark american case that legalised abortion) has resulted in "1/3 of your friends never existing". then for the batshit icing on the batshit crazy cake they take thier tools (kids) and have them stand on capitol hill with red duct tape with "life" written on it covering thier mouths. Am i the only person who thinks its despicable and vomit inducing to use impressionable kids to further your radical, fundamentalist right with political ideas?

Since the release of this movie the actual "jesus camp" has been closed down (Hallelujah!!) but the damage has already been done to these children. Dont get me wrong, i have no issues with kids learning about their parents religion but this is fucking nuts!

I've got thousands of things that i'd like to touch on in this review but I'm so blinded with rage and confusion that i cant go on. Hopefully you will watch this and understand where i'm coming from

Saturday October 28, 2006 - 12:10 PM

Category:

Movie

Director:

Gabriel Range

Year:

2006

Genre:

Drama

Average:

5 reviews

Death of a President (2006)
Directed by:
Gabriel Range

Writing credits:
Simon Finch
Gabriel Range

Tagline: Do not rush to judge.

Plot Outline: Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime.

(www.imdb.com/title/tt0853096/)

Your Digital Jesus' Review: Death Of a President portrays the fictional assassination of George W Bush in October of 2007 while attending a conference at the Sheraton hotel in Chicago.

The film itself is made up of mostly old footage of President Bush and Vice President Cheney (and cronies) and seamlessly connected new material.

Watching DOAP is like watching something on A&E with a "Cold Case Files" feel to it. Scenes are narrated by various law enforcement officers, presidential staff, "witnesses" and scenes are pretexted with mock interviews of the narrator. Of course these people aren't actually who they say they are but for a low budget independent film the acting was very believable, as i mentioned before, its like watching A&E.

There is a lot of controversy surrounding this movie ever since its release at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. Many people have said that its inappropriate and "unamerican" to portray the death of a current president, As a result many conservative media tycoons have successfully had this movie pulled from several theatre chains across the US, to date no Canadian theatre chains have expressed any concern over this film (as far as i know).

Many people have said that this movie is another "Michael Mooring" of The American President. I found that the film showed no partisanship to either Right or Left, Liberal or Democrat. The Bill O'Rieley's of the world demonised this movie for portraying the assassination of the president but the movie isn't focused on the assassination, more the global impact of bush's death and how it was used as a tool to propagate the current American "Culture of Fear" and turn the "Land of the Free" into some Quasi-democratic police state.


There's not much more i can say without spoiling the movie so i'll end this. For those of you who are interested in politics, you probably already want to see this movie. For those of you who aren't, ESPECIALLY Americans, i strongly recommend this. Its a hypothetical situation but the political, legal and social consequences are all entirely logical and possible given the track record of the current American Administration.