Movie Details
| Title: | This Place Rules | |
| Director: | Andrew Callaghan | |
| Year: | 2022 | |
| Genre: | Documentary | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 01.01.23 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 01.01.23 | Internet | Happy New Year! Today's double feature is called "New Shit I Want to See, Part 2" and it starts with this documentary that HBO bought from Andrew Callaghan who I learned about from Hot Ones. He has a youtube channel called Channel 5 where he goes around doing, I guess you'd call it amateur journalism? Citizen journalism? He talks to a bunch of people and often finds pretty crazy subjects which edit down to pretty funny segments. Here, he's covering the 2020 election fallout culminating in the Jan 6th riots. I thought it was great. I think his mission is to take an empathetic ear to all levels of humanity and secondarily show how mainstream media care more about profit than common good, which I completely agree with. With this subject he does a great job finding extremists on both the right and the left (not hard to find) and showing how radicalized so many have become. He also dips into groups like antifa, proud boys, alex jones, etc. Alex Jones. Quick sidebar about him. When I moved to Austin, he was like one of a handful of eccentrics driving around town with a loudspeaker on his car like in the movie Waking Life. I liked that this texas city had such a diversity of opinion and open-ness to let the freaks fly their flags. For the sxsw screening of Scanner Darkly, friends were saving me a seat that he tried to steal. From what they told me, he was like "but I'm IN the movie!" and they were like "sorry, guy." I went to a screening he booked at an Alamo where he showed footage from when he infiltrated Bohemian Grove and his intro started out with "So this is what a bunch of info wars listeners look like," like he was in on the joke. He then apologized in advanced for how crap the film was. A documentary that he shot and edited. So I always thought of him as an eccentric but ultimately harmless character that was just part of the American tapestry. Cut to 15 years later and in his own way he has also gone the route of "mainstream media" where it's more profitable to say stupid shit you don't believe just to get people to watch and who cares if the world burns while you do it. Of course he's talking about Globalist baby-eating deep state reptiles instead of immigrant caravans and tax returns but to his audience it's the same thing. Anyway, I thought this doc was great. Callaghan's main point seems to be that many of these people are basically being fleeced by hucksters. As an American it's very sad to see where we're at, but this also makes you laugh at how absurd all of us are, or can be. |
