alex wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
I saw it, it was pretty creepy. I thought it would have been more effective if the filmmaker's bias wasn't quite so obvious though, I couldn't help but feel like I was watching some low budget Michael Moore shooting fish in a barrel.
I prefer when bias is evident because everyone has a bias that influences how they cut a film. Films that try to hide the bias are not always as interesting. I would argue that the filmmaker showed less editorial authorship than many documentaries. The filmmaker basically let Becky Fisher, the woman who runs the camp, talk so much that she ended up hanging herself and showing everyone what she's made of. I mean, just listening to her for a couple minutes, you can tell that woman is not a very sane person.
I would have liked it a little better if they had interviewed some less crazy Christians as well, for balance purposes. What I'm saying here is that by choosing the nuttiest bunch they could find and sticking exclusively with them, it felt to me like they set out to make a film vilifying Evangelical Christianity, and that made their message less powerful to me. Also, the only non-Christian they interviewed was a talk show host on Air America, hardly an unbiased source. With a subject as obviously nuts as Becky Fisher, they could have put a very strong counter-weight in the film, and she still would have hung herself just as effectively. The part where she goes on about the Muslims training suicide bombers from a young age, and that the Christians need to start indoctrinating young too was particularly good, I'm sure the film maker mas mentally shouting "cha-ching! jackpot!" when she said that.
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