Movie: The Freedom of Silence

[EyeQueue]

I just found a hilarious fundie dystopian film on Netflix streaming. It's called The Freedom of Silence.

It takes place in 2030, and a tyrannical American government has outlawed Christianity. :lol: :lol:

The time-passing news footage montage at the beginning seems to suggest it all starts with teh ebil soshalized medicine.

So far it's a laugh riot with the "good" Christians all clean-cut and Duggar-like in polo shirts. Predictably bad acting and low production values are in abundance.

The director is a Richard Robertson. Maybe a Pat connection?

:popcorn:

[curlytoes79]

It's too late for me to start a movie tonight, but I took a glance at it just to see the production values. First 10 seconds...a Ben Stein-like news anchor is waxing grim about the launch of phase II of the president's health care act...

OH HORROR!

:lol:

[JesusFightClub]

LOLOLOLOL, I just googled this and watched the trailer. The government of the future will be waterboarding Christians, apparently. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

The "tortured Christian" looked about as tortured as people normally do when they've had a bit of tomato sauce dabbed onto them. Is there something in the Bible that forbids training in special effects?

I also love the idea that government officials are specially evil. This idea can only be held by someone who's never met a government official. Hint: They like desk instructions, humorous pictures of cats and putting labels on their cartons of milk so no one steals them from the fridge. If this sounds like a veritable picture of diabolic evil to you, I suggest you get out more.

I read this review: http://www.film.com/movies/erics-bad-mo ... lence-2011 and now I totally want to see the complete film. It looks like comedy gold.

[EyeQueue]

LOLOLOLOL, I just googled this and watched the trailer. The government of the future will be waterboarding Christians, apparently. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

The "tortured Christian" looked about as tortured as people normally do when they've had a bit of tomato sauce dabbed onto them. Is there something in the Bible that forbids training in special effects?

I also love the idea that government officials are specially evil. This idea can only be held by someone who's never met a government official. Hint: They like desk instructions, humorous pictures of cats and putting labels on their cartons of milk so no one steals them from the fridge. If this sounds like a veritable picture of diabolic evil to you, I suggest you get out more.

I read this review: http://www.film.com/movies/erics-bad-mo ... lence-2011 and now I totally want to see the complete film. It looks like comedy gold.

You have no idea, JFC!! There's hawt government interrogation action, and yet another montage that hits all the high points of a fundie marriage: a wedding with guests that look like they stepped out of a Vision Forum catalogue, a pre-baby shopping spree at Wal-Mart (I shit you not--they're really in WM!), and a womanly birthin' scene.

There's also a hilarious scene where a street preacher argues with a crowd of secular humanists and moral relativists, when all of a sudden several ominous, black SUVs pull up and evil gov't agents arrest the helpless thumper. :lol:

I'm about halfway through it right now.

[YPestis]

When I saw that on Netflix, I instantly thought about posting this on Free Jinger! I have an aversion to really bad movies, so I hope some of the other posters will be brave enough to endure this atrocity of a film and give the rest of us a review!

[snarkyjan]

Where's Ed Wood when you need him?

[Anny Nym]

Just the trailer alone was that greasy cheesy, it leaked out of my notebook and made my cat slip on it ...

Remembers me of those mid-90s nigerian Nollywood movies though. Just with (even more) fundies -> it´s like FOLLYYWOOD!

[JesusFightClub]

You have no idea, JFC!! There's hawt government interrogation action, and yet another montage that hits all the high points of a fundie marriage: a wedding with guests that look like they stepped out of a Vision Forum catalogue, a pre-baby shopping spree at Wal-Mart (I shit you not--they're really in WM!), and a womanly birthin' scene.

There's also a hilarious scene where a street preacher argues with a crowd of secular humanists and moral relativists, when all of a sudden several ominous, black SUVs pull up and evil gov't agents arrest the helpless thumper. :lol:

I'm about halfway through it right now.

I am sooo going to watch this (and I thank you for bringing it to our attention!) I could really do with a laugh.

What is this anti-government....er, weirdness? It amuses me greatly to think that some people believe most government officials in the future will be throwing people into darkened interrogation rooms or dramatically stopping people from talking shite about icecream flavours while waving a Bible around. Srsly, I used to work for the UK equivalent of the IRS and while we were greatly feared, we were distinctly less than terrifying in the flesh. There were no darkened interrogation rooms (there was a very nice room with a picture of flowers on the wall where we would bring you a cup of tea and some biscuits then have a little chat about your issues).

Making up ridiculous anti-government stories is just daft. And you don't really need to. Mind you, realism is probably an alien concept to people who think that Christians are persecuted in the most high-profile "Christian nation" on earth and that having an NHS opens the floodgates for torturing Christians. :cray-cray:

[OkToBeTakei]

I am sooo going to watch this (and I thank you for bringing it to our attention!) I could really do with a laugh.

What is this anti-government....er, weirdness? It amuses me greatly to think that some people believe most government officials in the future will be throwing people into darkened interrogation rooms or dramatically stopping people from talking shite about icecream flavours while waving a Bible around. Srsly, I used to work for the UK equivalent of the IRS and while we were greatly feared, we were distinctly less than terrifying in the flesh. There were no darkened interrogation rooms (there was a very nice room with a picture of flowers on the wall where we would bring you a cup of tea and some biscuits then have a little chat about your issues).

Making up ridiculous anti-government stories is just daft. And you don't really need to. Mind you, realism is probably an alien concept to people who think that Christians are persecuted in the most high-profile "Christian nation" on earth and that having an NHS opens the floodgates for torturing Christians. :cray-cray:

CANNOT wait for your synopsis JFC :lol:

Just saying and not to fuel the stupid people's pursuquooshun complex. But I'd be totally ok with legal recourse for soliciting business via bible. ie trying to sell Jesus. Just as it is illegal to sell any dodgy DVD's CD's in the pub. Same shit :lol:

[GeoBQn]

It's too late for me to start a movie tonight, but I took a glance at it just to see the production values. First 10 seconds...a Ben Stein-like news anchor is waxing grim about the launch of phase II of the president's health care act...

OH HORROR!

:lol:

Phase 1: Socialized Medicine

Phase 2: ?

Phase 3: Profit

[MrsYoungie]

I am sooo going to watch this (and I thank you for bringing it to our attention!) I could really do with a laugh.

What is this anti-government....er, weirdness? It amuses me greatly to think that some people believe most government officials in the future will be throwing people into darkened interrogation rooms or dramatically stopping people from talking shite about icecream flavours while waving a Bible around. Srsly, I used to work for the UK equivalent of the IRS and while we were greatly feared, we were distinctly less than terrifying in the flesh. There were no darkened interrogation rooms (there was a very nice room with a picture of flowers on the wall where we would bring you a cup of tea and some biscuits then have a little chat about your issues).

Making up ridiculous anti-government stories is just daft. And you don't really need to. Mind you, realism is probably an alien concept to people who think that Christians are persecuted in the most high-profile "Christian nation" on earth and that having an NHS opens the floodgates for torturing Christians. :cray-cray:

A good film director could find a way to make this "interrogation" method terrifying. Endless cups of tea piling up on a desk next to a picture of the questioner's family - accompanied by shrieking violin sounds.

"Would he tell them? Or would the cups of tea from Hell NEVER END?????????????

[Patsy]

A good film director could find a way to make this "interrogation" method terrifying. Endless cups of tea piling up on a desk next to a picture of the questioner's family - accompanied by shrieking violin sounds.

"Would he tell them? Or would the cups of tea from Hell NEVER END?????????????

THE COMFY CHAIR!!!

[AllisonWndrland]

Phase 1: Socialized Medicine

Phase 2: ?

Phase 3: Profit

:lol:

This has been a joke between me and Mr. Wndrland. Obama, ?????, CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION!! Prior to our recent move to the heathen city, we lived in a very, very conservative rural area. I actually had someone tell me "Obama is just ruining this country" and follow that up with a hug and a God Bless You.

I have to watch this movie. I predict endless snark material for use with my evil socialist liberal friends.

[lizziesmom]

Is Kirk Cameron in it?

[EyeQueue]

THE COMFY CHAIR!!!

Patsy, at one point one of the interrogators does, indeed, say: "Put him in the chair," and my mind went immediately to MP.

I'll recap this bitch, but it'll take me a few days to get to it.

[JesusFightClub]

A good film director could find a way to make this "interrogation" method terrifying. Endless cups of tea piling up on a desk next to a picture of the questioner's family - accompanied by shrieking violin sounds.

"Would he tell them? Or would the cups of tea from Hell NEVER END?????????????

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

It was really the biscuits you had to watch out for. Due to Government cutbacks, they were usually (stale) digestives.

And there was the day that the hot water urn thingy had got all corroded in the inside and no-one knew until a customer fished a huge big lump of rusty iron out of his tea. The union had words about that.

[snarktastic]

So what I want to know is, given that we've had 'socialized medicine' for like 60 years or something in the UK, when are they going to start torturing the Christians over here? And will they let the Queen and the Prime Minister off, or will we let them get away with being Christians?

[EyeQueue]

So, because I watched part of The Freedom of Silence last night, I now have a number of other related titles Netflix is recommending to me. This list includes such cinematic masterpieces as:

Travel the Road--Apparently two guys who are "extreme missionaries"...so a sort of Bible thumpin' X-Games aesthetic.

Six--Another Christian attempt at a dystopia, starring Stephen Baldwin as a man who fights against a fascist regime by joining the Christisn resistence movement. :lol: :lol:

The Encounter--Strangers brought together in a cafe interact with the owner of the place, who just might be Jebus.

The Imposter--Detailing the travails of a Christian rock singer.

The Moment After 2--Adventure and intrigue following the Rapture. Part 2!!11eleventy!

Plus about 65 other fine titles, including (inexplicably):

Tomb Raider--That Angelina Jolie is pretty damned defrauding.

Escape from L.A.

Sasquatch--What appears to be a B-level creature flick.

What the Hell's up with their algorithm?

[Rescinded and Mended]

:lol:

This has been a joke between me and Mr. Wndrland. Obama, ?????, CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION!! Prior to our recent move to the heathen city, we lived in a very, very conservative rural area. I actually had someone tell me "Obama is just ruining this country" and follow that up with a hug and a God Bless You.

I have to watch this movie. I predict endless snark material for use with my evil socialist liberal friends.

*gasps* :o

Not the nefarious Bless-Your-Heart-And-I-Will-Pray-For-You Maneuver?!

That's the ultimate in Southern insults! :lol:

[Anxious Girl]

If practicing the Freedom of Silence means allowing proselytizers go door to door, telling proselytizeres no illegal, making critizing Christianity illegal like in Russia, having Christians to influence civil marriage laws and federal laws by the Old Testament of their Bibles and forcing kids to say Christian prayers/make them feel guilty be dissassociation, then I'm for the Freedom of Silence. I'm tired of Christians abusing their priveleges in America. If you abuse freedom too much, then people are gonna get tired of it, especially with hate speech and religious bias. With freedom comes a price, and they have to understand this.

[desertvixen]

What is this anti-government....er, weirdness? It amuses me greatly to think that some people believe most government officials in the future will be throwing people into darkened interrogation rooms or dramatically stopping people from talking shite about icecream flavours while waving a Bible around.

Because they assume that a liberal government will abuse power as much as they would themselves? (Not to say we don't have some abuses of power going on...)

[Patsy]

I'll recap this bitch, but it'll take me a few days to get to it.

Looking forward to it :D

[Scone]

(snip)

A good film director could find a way to make this "interrogation" method terrifying. Endless cups of tea piling up on a desk next to a picture of the questioner's family - accompanied by shrieking violin sounds.

"Would he tell them? Or would the cups of tea from Hell NEVER END?????????????

Someone's already had a fairly amusing stab at that. Not so much an interrogation, but it has the Never-Ending Hell Tea in it. I present you with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtsXLxwuCIg! :D

Also, Netflix doesn't work where I live. If anyone finds an international link though, I definitely want to see the tomato sauce torture.

[JesusFightClub]

Someone's already had a fairly amusing stab at that. Not so much an interrogation, but it has the Never-Ending Hell Tea in it. I present you with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtsXLxwuCIg! :D

Also, Netflix doesn't work where I live. If anyone finds an international link though, I definitely want to see the tomato sauce torture.

That link was brilliant :worship:

I could see some similarities in our technique there. "You'd like some tea, wouldn't you?" *steely glare*. Ruaraidh will be bringing you some in a moment. Now, about your accounts..."

[JellyHope]

Oh wow, this makes Fireproof & Kirk Cameron look like Oscar winners.