Saturday, July 5, 2014

America 2016

We have visited the movie theatre more this year than the last ten combined!  On July 4, we went to Milford, Ohio to watch America 2016, our second Dinesh D'souza  movie.  I like the way this guy thinks, documents, and presents.

"Dinesh D'souza's documentary "America" opens this week, just in time for the July 4th holiday -- but "patriotic" isn't the "p" word being used most often to describe this latest film from the conservative author and commentator. Rather, it's "partisan," which shouldn't come as much of a surprise for anyone familiar with his 2008 anti-Obama film "2016: Obama's America."
 
D'Souza's newer film, whose full title is "America: Imagine the World Without Her," sets out to do just that: It uses dramatic re-enactments to help imagine what the world would be like if America never existed -- and uses its conclusions to counter what it says is a deeply anti-American slant that has come to color the nation's history.
 
"'Someone once observed: 'America is great because she is good; if she ever ceases to be good she will cease to be great,'" the film's producers write in its synopsis. "Today that notion of the essential goodness of America is under attack, replaced by another story in which theft and plunder are seen as the defining features of American history -- from the theft of Native American and Mexican lands and the exploitation of African labor to a contemporary foreign policy said to be based on stealing oil and a capitalist system that robs people of their 'fair share.'"
 
"America" wasn't widely screened for critics, but the first handful of reviews are trickling in, and they're not particularly glowing. Below, find a sampling of what critics are saying about D'Souza's new film. "America: Imagine the World Without Her" opened in theaters on Wednesday (July 2). "
 
I recommend everyone go see this movie.  Like his first documentary, this movie makes you think.  I also think farmers and businessmen would really get the points of this movie.
 
Ed and LuAnn
 

3 comments:

  1. I probably will watch it too, but I expect it will be as disappointing as his previous movie. Plus I usually don't like costume movies. This one seems to be pointless fiction too. I like fiction more for its philosophical implications than for a partisan purpose. But I'll see for myself, I don't want any spoiler.

    I don't understand the mention of the Native Americans and African slaves. You can't be a good American today if you don't acknowledge that the U.S., like most countries, also had a shady past. It does not make America any better or worse than what it is today, because today is reality, but you can't also deny that it is part of its historical past, it is part of what made America. Not sure the word "define" is the most appropriate. Soft-calling "theft" what was essentially plain genocide does not help either. The condemnation of American imperialism, a practice that still perdures with some large corporations, is not "replacing" what people think of America, it would also be partisanism to ignore or discard this reality and several others.

    Hey, we might even call America "it," not "her," if Bartholdi had sculpted a giant beaver instead... ;)

    But I understand D'souza's perspective: For most of the world, the U.S. is still a better place in many aspects, there is no denying that either. It's a shame though that Elia Kazan, one of the persons who celebrated the American Dream the most with his movie America, America, was sued for un-american activities at the time of McCarthyism.

    But yes, there has been a shift in the U.S. and worldwide in the opinion about the U.S. I think this is however mostly limited to a few matters like economical imperialism, not an opinion about the U.S. in general, but there will always be people who think in black and white, exactly like D'Souza does, and will associate one or several practices or corporations to the whole country. It does not help either when Bush blatantly lied to America and the world about Iraq's WMDs.

    It's a far cry from the 60s and 70s of my youth when even France celebrated America:
    - La Californie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMnbdSAivCo
    - La Cavalerie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjgBd1VQnik
    (about the gangs of Hell's Angels bikers as a modern times' Cavalry.)
    - San Francisco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q61cFrsB9Gw
    - L'Amérique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPn52kRQx3k

    The three first songs especially are poems of their own. I don't know many modern French songs that speak about America, but quite a few French singers now sing in English, and American singers and bands are very popular too.

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  2. Sure wish blogger made your links live without copy and paste.

    I understand the costume deal.

    You have to remember Dinesh and I see things similarly.

    Ed

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