Red State, The Movie

You don't want her as a neighbour.

Strange movie in the Londoner cinemas now: Red State.

I do not know the background of the director, but the movie stinks of secular propaganda rather insistently, if never unbearably so. The story is about a group of ultra-right wing religious fanatics doing those things liberals fantasise right-wing religious people to do. The nutters’ main target are, of course, sodomites and one perceives here an implicit criticism not only of social conservatism, but of Christianity itself: the homicidal nutters are, in fact, those who take the Christian matter seriously, and clearly formulate the rules and the consequences of their willful disobedience.

Thankfully, though, we aren’t confronted with the usual “good faggot” now so common in Hollywood’s romantic comedies (see the last example, “Friends with Benefits”; or “Hitch” comes to mind) nor are we put in front of an explicit condemnation of Christianity. There is even a hint of an attempt to exonerate serious Christians, when it is mentioned that the head nutcase had traveled to Rome to protest against the Vatican; which is, by the way, something liberal and atheist nutters love to do in a most special way….

The movie stinks of liberalism in other ways, too, but I do not want to write any (excessive) spoiler here. I do not feel like condemning the movie outright as I did with that cretinous work of some months ago, the brainchild of two children without brains. But I do think that an occasion has been lost here to give an intelligent representation of Christianity, and to put some atheist baddy in the salad just to avoid being considered biased.

By the way I do not subscribe to the mantra that “God hates fags”, but I am fully persuaded that he totally hates faggotry.

Mundabor