Zeitgeist, The Movie
Tuesday, September 4, 2007 at 5:13PM Full release, an hour and 56 minutes long.
Of course you can sit here on my front porch and watch it, but if you hop over to Google Video you can go to full-screen mode.
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I haven't watched the whole thing yet ... only about twenty minutes into it. Here's what seems to be a thoughtful and balanced review of the film, from Jay Kinney at Boing Boing
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Jay Kinney reviews Zeitgeist, the Movie
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It’s a shame, really, that Zeitgeist is, ultimately, such a mess. There are plenty of legitimate questions about what transpired on 9/11, just as there are plenty of shady doings in international finance or puzzling aspects of religious history, for that matter. And what is coming down in the name of National Security is truly unnerving. Yet, bundling them all together in disjointed fashion does justice to none of them. Time and again, Zeitgeist maximizes emotional impact at the expense of a more reasoned weighing of evidence. But, perhaps that’s the intention.
I’ve often pondered about what it might take to snap everyone out of the walking dream we collectively entered on 9/11/01. Just as the fall of the Berlin Wall provided the emotional pivot for the end of the Cold War, only a collective experience of an intensity equal to that of 9/11 might jolt us awake as to what is really happening in the corridors of power and certain undisclosed locations.
It’s my hunch that Zeitgeist is one attempt to provide such a jolt, and it does indeed pack a certain punch. Too bad it also runs off in three directions at once, and is so indiscriminate in its sources and overly certain of its conclusions. Zeitgeist may be powerful, but its power is tainted with some simplistic and pernicious memes that have already received more propagation than they deserve.The video’s producer does inform us that “It is my hope that people will not take what is said in the film as the truth . . .”
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I agree with the funding question!! movies take time and engery so unless Perter Joseph won the loto and is mega rich then I must assume he has sponsers. heres quesing it wasnt big oil!