Good concept, poorly executed.
A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
View MoreThe acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
View MoreThis is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
View MoreMere access to information (or, more aptly, MISinformation) is meaningless without the critical thinking skills that are required to sort the Truth from the Untruths. Television (as it's been practiced in this country since the Reagan Reich began) is an immoral monster that trivializes the Truth- deliberate mass media misinformation and manipulation on a scale even Orwell himself couldn't have imagined. When the Republican Reich foreclosed on the fourth estate, they simply paved it over with the tombstones of those they'd ousted and turned it into a pay-as-you-go parking lot. ("See no Evil" war coverage; how's THAT for Orwellian...?) It comes as no surprise, then, that the single most powerful lobby in politics is- viola!- The Media. Reichmaster Reagan left the FCC toothless and the Public truthless. He who controls the media in the U.$., controls the mindless masses. And we who sit and watch and do nothing are complicit.
View MoreThis is a must see movie for all citizens of the world - if we hope to reclaim our liberty we must learn how the message is being filtered and controlled. For the first step begins with the realization the message is being controlled.Anyone who values their freedom and liberty should watch this movie and share it with as many people as possible. This movie is extremely well done, with great wonderful film editing, plus the content is easy to follow and understand. And of course the Orwellian analogy is dead on accurate.Excellent film. Kudos to all involved but especially to Director/Writer Robert Kane Pappas. Thank you for your courage and your patriotism.
View MoreA shocking and very well developed argument regarding American media. Pappas accurately draws numerous parallels between Orwell's '1984' and the propaganda machine of Nazi Germany. The culmination of the film focuses on the de-regulation of corporate media, that would allow fewer and fewer gigantic companies to own as many media affiliates as they can buy up. Another ramification of de-regulation, is the unchecked slanting of the news to favor the interests of one side, namely the media owners, and their political affiliates. This is a film that is extremely important. Watch it, for your own sake, and share it with others.
View MoreI've known of this documentary for a while now and even tried to see it before the last presidential election. It is indeed scary. It brings together disparate stories and facts of the last 25 years tying them together in a coherent pattern that is downright ugly! I was especially impressed by the filmmakers focus on one of the biggest unreported stories of the last quarter of the 20th Century - that being how the Reagan cabal manipulated the 1980 election in order to win it and then paid off one of the members of the nascent "axis of evil" for their cooperation. This all culminated in the Iran/Contra scandal for which only one person took the fall, too bad he didn't (and still doesn't) have the honor and integrity to expose this treasonous story. Find this movie and show it to your friends.
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