Neo-cons: everything to fear in fear itself - Great New Movie!!

[annabanana]

There is a new movie that traces the birth of the Neo-Con movement. It has 4 stars in today's Newsday!
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/nyc-etmovie4543620dec09,0,1574170.story

"(4 STARS) THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES (unrated). Keep telling yourself "It's only a movie": Fantasy, horror, hallucinations and delusions mark roots of neo-con Republicanism and radical Islamic fundamentalism, the twin towers of Adam Curtis' remarkable documentary. 2:37. Exclusively at Cinema Village, 12th Street, west of University Place, Manhattan.

Adam Curtis is as different a documentary maker from Michael Moore as one could find - Curtis is steadfastly clinical, where Moore is hysterically emotional - but they do share a critical point of view about contemporary American history: As Moore did in "Bowling for Columbine," Curtis' "The Power of Nightmares" finds that the basis of 21st century political power is fear. And for nearly three hours he makes it very hard to argue it's not.

In setting up his audacious thesis - that the rise of the neo-conservatives in American politics has its doppelganger in Islamic fundamentalism - Curtis makes a thorough, illuminating and entertaining argument that what was once a U.S. electorate susceptible to pie-in-the-sky promises has become a quivering mass that will vote for whoever scares it most."

snip

"Meanwhile, Curtis tells us, Leo Strauss, a rather mysterious figure at Chicago University, was cultivating a coterie that included Paul Wolfowitz and which unleashed upon the U.S. political landscape an ideology of American self-interest and domination that would influence presidents from Reagan to Bush II."

[NanceGreggs]

1. This movie aired on TV here in Canada ...

... earlier this year. Two thumbs WAY UP! Educational, interesting -- and so damned frightening!

[annabanana]

2. Well, it looks like the US release is

Ex-treeee-mly limited. I wonder if it will ever be part of our history books. It should be. I hope I'll be able to get a DVD...

[NanceGreggs]

3. Because I live in Toronto ...

... I have access to both US and Canadian TV stations. You would be AMAZED at the types of shows we've seen here on Canadian TV -- things that, like this movie, would NEVER air on US TV in the present political climate.

Jeez, I'm so old, I remember when we Americans had things like Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press ... things that, at the present rate, will wind up in the History Books as quaint notions that existed once upon a time in America.