Jesus Camp
by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
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Actor: Becky Fischer, Mike Papantonio, Ted HaggardDirector: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Brand: MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-23
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Magnolia
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Movie Review: jezzzzzzzus
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one of the scariest things I have seen in a long time. Basically, it follows a few pre-adolesent teens as they go from their fudimentalist Christian homes to a bible camp, run by pastor Becky Fischer. There, they speak in tounges, roll of the floor, and learn about the evils of abortion, Harry Potter, the Democratic Party and...........well, anyone that does not think exactally the way they do.
And the pity is, these are gentle, sweet, nice, kids, but they are being exposed to some of the worst bigotry and intolerance by Ficsher; this fruitcake wants to kill Harry Potter. She has the kids holding spears and dancing to a Jesus Worrier Dance. She also has them praying to a cut out of George W. Bush.
Most disturbing is that she says she wants her students to have the same fervor for Jesus that Bin-Ladin and co have for Islam. "Excuse me," she declares, "but we have the truth." Ah, well, good thing you told me, I guess its ok then. Now, how many people is it ok for you to get killed?
She also says kids are a sizeible part of the world's popultion, and good tools to spread this thruth she has a monopoly on. She never sees the kids as people, or if she does, it is only because they think EXACTLY how she does.
In once sequence, the kids get yelled at for telling ghost stories in their bunks. God does not want them doing this. The staff at this camp needs make more money: how many people in child care know what god wants, PERSICELY. (Actually, God called me last night and said he wants me to have that '63 Corvette I always coveted. Any buyers?)
Worst is, the kids eat this trash, hook, line and Hymmbook. At the end of Jesus Camp, one of the little girls is out prostlotizing, looks at a women, and says "Oh, I think she's a Muslim." "There are two kinds of people," Mom says, "those who love Jesus and those who don't.' The ones who do, they say, need to take America back. And, so, what happens to the rest of us?
The filmaking is good, but the problem is, except for a brief segment with an AIR America host (you have heard of comic releif? This is sanity releif,) these people--the adults, not the kids--are never confronted on their hate mongering, and so the question i have of "do you understand how dangerous this all is?" is never put to these nutjobs. I understand the editorial choice of having the filmmakers remain silent, but some of the material here is just too outragous to go unchallanged, and I would have like to seen Fischer have to defend some of these insane positions.
I think I am taking that '63 Vette and fleeing to Canada.
Summary of Jesus Camp
This follows 3 kids to pastor becky fischers kids on fire suumer camp where kids as young as 6 years old are taught to become dedicated christian soldiers in gods army. Studio: Magnolia Pict Hm Ent Release Date: 12/31/2007 Run time: 87 minutes Rating: Pg13The feverish spectacle of a summer camp for evangelical Christian kids is the focus of Jesus Camp, a fascinating if sometimes alarming documentary. (Shortly after its release, the movie gained a new notoriety when Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, who appears near the end of the film, resigned his post amid a male prostitute's allegations of drug use and sexual misconduct.) For most of the film, we follow a charismatic teacher, Becky Fischer, as she trains young soldiers in "God's Army" at a camp in North Dakota. Some of the kids emerge as likable and bright, and eager to continue their work as pint-sized preachers; elsewhere, the visions of children speaking in tongues and falling to the floor in ecstasy are more troubling. Even more arresting is the vision of a generation of children home-schooled to believe that the Bible is science, or Fischer's certainty that America's flawed system of democracy will someday be replaced by a theocracy. (In one scene, a cardboard cut-out of George W. Bush is presented to the children, who react by laying their hands on the figure as though in a religious procession.) Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady maintain neutrality about all this, maybe too much so (they throw in some interviews with radio host Mike Papantonio to provide a liberal-Christian viewpoint) and one would like to know more about the grown-ups presented here. Power broker Haggard is the creepiest person in the film, an insincere smooth talker whose advice to one of the young would-be campgoers comes across as entirely cynical. Time will tell whether the film's Christian soldiers will be marching onward. --Robert Horton
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