The NZA Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 it's been a while since we had a thread on quality documentaries (i had an interesting one on african countries in culture, where this thread might later migrate), wanted to bring this guy to others' attention, as he's all over some current political/social topics of interest. more to come, he's got a lotta stuff on youtube and a lot of it seems loaded/at times, hard to watch like some of this as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jables Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 He's brilliant. The Texans & I spent a good amount of time holed up in Joel's guest room watching he and Jimmy Carr. The DVD boxed set which comprises the weird Weekends, Louis meets... and specials is great. He has a way of getting stuff out of people. Great interviewer. Other high points to look out for(for this crowd) are Gangsta Rap, South African Nationalists, and the above week with the Phelps. That shit was just disturbing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maldron Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Just watched the phelps bit. I thought I knew what anger and hate were, but now I know my feelings were simply intense frustration. Watching that pastor speak, I felt hate, true hate, for the first time in my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alive she cried Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Whatever has Louis' name on it is guaranteed quality. Without doubt some of the best tv being made.....I want to have his babies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jables Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Shotgun the fruit of such a union. They could only be made of further win(and probably not know how to say no either). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 oh, man...he went back. The most hated family in america in crisis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jables Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Fuck YES. Gonna try and watch that tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 (edited) I just watched both docs. I've seen the news clips about this cult before and they were even on the Howard Stern show a few times back in the 90s/early 2000s, but I didn't know why they did these protests--what motivated them to hate so vehemently. These docs are absolutely fascinating. The "humanistic" factor of watching these cult members in their beliefs is, well, gripping to watch. You see some members go deeper in the rabbit hole (the one from the first doc Louis was trying to "reach" actually is becoming her mother) from the first doc back in 2006, and others have left the church all together. Oh, and Joel should be happy to know Obama IS the antichrist. Edited April 4, 2011 by Mr. Hakujin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted March 8, 2017 Author Share Posted March 8, 2017 so his scientology one's out, but i hear it's not his best work he did comment about his next works on an AMA: Three docs about crime in America. Murder in Milwaukee; sex trafficking in Houston; and opioid addiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alive she cried Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 I enjoyed it, I think it's just I've seen so many Scientology documentaries in the last few years, it's hard to find a new spin. Although I think he does do that in the reenactments. If you're a fan of Louis it's worth watching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donatella Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 I'm interested, but we've watched so much stuff on Scientology lately, I'm sure it'll be a lot of repeat information. I didn't mind it much in Remini's show because she expanded on it and gave us so much more. It's good to hear the reenactments offer a new perspective! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted February 16, 2022 Author Share Posted February 16, 2022 In Forbidden America, Louis Theroux eviscerates the far right Quote Theroux is braver than he used to be – or rather, he's less happy to play the innocent. First, he flushes out his interviewees' politics (not hard), and then, with almost equal swiftness, he reduces them to a kind of nappy-state (a diaper-state, if any of them are reading this), all neediness and tantrums and wobbling lips. All this takes is the smallest contradiction. Ostensibly, the internet has given these gamers ("Fortnite is the new golf course," as Fuentes puts it) everything they could possibly want: for their generation, a support base – like sex or fast food – is only a click away. But no amount of anything can truly sate their ineffable existential hunger. When they chant "Christ is king!" or rant about how white people are "done with being bullied", what they're really expressing is their broken-heartedness. The world is big, and they're tiny, and however many likes they get, still they remain, in essence, invisible. We never meet, you notice, any wives or girlfriends. People on the right talk of the politics of envy, meaning the taxation-hungry left. But it works the other way round, too. When Fuentes calls Theroux "pretentious", some part of him, we sense, is envious; he wants what he purports to loathe. Quote Remember Boaty Mcboatface? Well, in Kentucky, there's a far-right activist called Beardson Beardly whose luxuriant facial hair makes him look (though I'm not sure he fully grasps this) more like a hipster baker than a guy who (allegedly) likes to use the Nazi salute. Beardly's politics may be viler than his cute name suggests (he's a rabid supporter of Nick Fuentes, the founder of the America First Political Action Convention, who disapproves of interracial relationships and believes the US should be white majority and that no group is more protected than "the Jews"), but he's a total baby. "My country's better than yours!" he shouts at Louis Theroux when the two of them fall out about five minutes after first meeting. "I'm cooler than you!" It's like listening to a ten-year-old who's drunk too much Sunny D. Time for a little lie-down, Beardly! this is gonna be a hard watch right here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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