Saturday, September 09, 2006

Jesus Camp

Check out this movie-trailer. Sick Christian bastards. Religious extremists, and a whole motherfucking shitload of them.
"Jesus Camp" revolves around a pentecostal minister who hosts a summer camp for children in North Dakota, and the sectarian Christian conservative families who send their children to this camp. Directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady wisely chose to avoid the polemical tone of most politically-motivated films, and instead opt to present a mostly unfiltered glimpse of this odd subculture. But through carefully selected images and the use of talk radio commentary as a framing device, they construct a subtle, yet damning narrative about a religious movement that isolates its children from mainstream culture, indoctrinates them into right-wing causes, and uses them as political props. At Jesus Camp, the daily activities include standard camp fare such as spelunking and go-karts, but they also include speaking in tongues and smashing coffee mugs emblazoned with the word "government". Children learn that "science doesn't prove anything," and learn to consider themselves part of an Army of God. They are compelled to pledge that they will fight to end abortion. They are even pushed into publicly confessing their impure thoughts, and many of them cry and wail charismatically.
I wanna see this. Kind of related to the post wiki made about Armor of God

3 comments:

annom said...

:| I want too see this too!

Hope there will be a torrent in a few weeks.

pimp-a-lot bear said...

Interesting material..
what a waist of potential, all those kids.

Kamiel said...

yeah ineresting material..
but got a feeling that his documantairy is going to make me feel real sad.