Within their argument, gatherings operating within the political alarmist model are typically critiqued for creating works such as ‘God & Country’. However, such a work indeed appears to provide an indication of troubling effects if one were to presume that the other side intended to complete this project. For the viewers that desperately need to see the movie, it is highly likely that’s it’s more of a propaganda instead of an entertaining movie. I am not entirely sure if their argument is wrong as well because, in the case of such a film, the intention might be to prepare people for an incoming war. In such cases, there is such a vocabulary that is aimed at religion.
“God & Country” is a movie about the role of America’s evangelical Christians in the growth of Christian faith within the political structure of the United States. The movie is directed by Partland and Reiner, who also collaborates with him on the politically sensitive issues that he works on. Looking for evidence that his investigation was consistent with these findings, Portland suggests that narcissistic personality disorder may make a person unfit for the office as well as a retired commander in chief.
This time the subject for the ‘documentary’ was unfit for office. Rob Reiner and Dr. Haworth, in ‘God & Country the Movie’, trace the roots of contemporary America’s problems that go back to society’s ignorant dependence on the electoral system. There is no doubt that the history that we have come to view evolved seems crazy today. Once again, a narrow understanding of Christian evangelism greatly expands when we hear about another of its representatives who thinks that faith in prophecies is the only means of achieving salvation.
As one scholar points out, in the USA there is a particular category of individuals who stand a better chance of being in the driver’s seat of local, state, or national government as the voters are notoriously known not to participate even when the circumstances are dire. This is the worrying factor, and this is seen in the case of censorship of books in local and school libraries to people who show up for school board meetings, even when they are from out of the state and do not have children in that locality. The documentary further echoes what the country was about on Jan 6, 2021, Americans who are on the far right of the political divide are presumed to be large; although they indeed are those who hold their opinion.
The number isn’t far from the one ingrained by those who state that some performer hasn’t turned “half of the country off” the number that sits at one in three voters, and once again, heads in that downward direction. And yet, the people who do say these things are active voters. By contrast, young Americans who consider themselves Vote Left, though very active on social media, are actually like a very tiny global drop on Election Day, so their opinions do not reach the establishment strong enough for them to be heard by them.
According to the film, Christian Nationalists are trying to reorganize the political landscape and establish their rule in the United States forever. This plan includes frequent and illegal use of obstructionism, gerrymandering, and selection of favorable judges within the nation’s political space. Rick Wiles, the pastor in charge of TruNews, a website that scans and analyzes global events and trends from a distinctly Christian angle, falls into this group of nationalists who boldly proclaimed “We are going to impose Christian rule in this country!” On the other hand, Brenan French, a writer for The New York Times, interprets this stance as ‘bearing malice and cruelty and division and partisanship’. Joining French is Bishop William J Barber III, a minister in the congregationalist tradition, who argues that this ideology is pro-wealth and pro-gun and narrowly fixated on things that God ‘says little about’ and ‘is so quiet about’ what God designed us to do, which is to ‘end poverty and therefore care for the least of thee.’
Firstly, let me clarify that this section has performed quite a commendable task in attempting to prove that the United States should not be labeled as a ‘Christian nation’. The section also posits how the government regained supremacy over the Ten Commandments. It also mentions how President George Washington didn’t pray in the snowfall alongside the soldiers in Valley Forge, as well as how there was little restriction to praying during the Red Scare of the 1950s. We can also notice how praying in schools, as well as the bible being mute on abortion, were enforced, which depicts a biased approach towards Christianity. It is also stated how the US coins only started showing ‘In God We Trust’ in 1864, and how during the 1980s Christianity was finally gaining momentum when the segregation of schools was introduced in the 1960s.
In reality, there is very little relevance or motivation that one cannot obtain by watching ‘The Daily Show’, ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’, or even Wikipedia which involves quotes that are crafted with a certain motive to maximally impact social media. However, I doubt that quote will ever be topped, especially considering it came from Greg Locke, pastor of Global Vision Bible Church, who screams at his audience “There are Democrats in this church that can not come! Get out, you demon! I despise you! Oh, that’s you! A woman who is another woman’s child for president! You, get out of this place!”
The political landscape is infused and overlapped with PAC advertisements spanning around thirty-second timelines, which are followed by a combination of stream of talking head interviews paired with political posters.
The soundtrack has this music that is suspicious and continually disturbing which makes one feel there is a threat in the form of planted bombs and asks, are our heroes going to find them and defuse them at the nick of time? However, there are some calm warmer moments with the acoustic guitar and pizzicato strings, but only when the good guys are on screen. There is not one thing in it that I am able to contemplate that could never be an excess of all that dreck that one receives from Fox News Channel, OANN, or listening to one of those countless local big city drive-time DJs who claim that an invasion of rapists, terrorists and thieves from the south is taking over America.
This particular firm, assuming that the Other Side is what one refers to, makes such films without pause, and while doing so, makes such miscalculations. The cutting is incredibly jittery and immersive.
I could probably say I have an old-fashioned view of this film as I would have rather liked a camera to zoom inside one of the churches that have been mentioned in this film and start documenting whatever interaction the churchgoers and the clergy have with the screen while providing us with details about their culture, belief systems and what threat they pose to democracy.
I guess the classic style of American documentaries from the mid-20th century which concentrated on documenting events instead of relying on rare incidents or drops of color is what I still miss.
In my view, this film actually complements multi-media and multi-approach methods. However, while I do more or less agree with the idea behind it, I want to go back and watch politically incorrect and uncompromising right-wing spy dramas and action films by Mel Gibson and S. Craig Zahler or some of the social realism films by Spike Lee or Ken Loach that have a different philosophy as me, because these types of films would allow me to touch the classical beauty of visual art.
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