Note: the film titles below link to the AFF description of the movie; please do read those short descriptions because I don’t recap that material in my comments.
Future By Design — a well-meaning utopian whose grasp of technologies is a mile wide but an inch deep, and none of his ideas would stand up to serious scrutiny. But he keeps his audience of lay dreamers (mostly itinerant retirees, it seems) entertained with lavish drawings and models. Oddly amateurish filmmaking.
Home Front — What strikes me during these scarred-by-Iraq docs is how I know absolutely nobody, even indirectly, who has been sent to Iraq. Middle America has bought into this delusional “freedom isn’t free” “fighting them over there to protect us over here” bullshit that the neocons have cynically fabricated to lure them into voting for their puppet, and Middle America pays for it with their sons and daughters lives and livelihood. But they can’t let themselves come to a conclusion other than “support the troops and the mission” because otherwise they might have to realize that they lost their eyes and limbs and lives for a fraud. These are simple, decent people who have been taken advantage of by a profit-making, body-chewing machine.
Al Franken: God Spoke — Eh. An entertaining crowd pleaser. Nice to see it demonstrated once again what a reptile Ann Coulter is. Anyway, nothing in politics really matters ever since the nation failed, on November 3rd 2004, to rise up en masse and correct the mistakes and crimes of the previous four years. Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?