Rise of Fascist Filmmaking in Hollywood

After Mel Gibson made his movie THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, he was considered by most Americans as an ultra Conservative Christian. Thousands of Pastors took their congregations to see this movie. From the beginning, it was clear that this movie was a horrible distortion of the truth; it was prejudicial, Anti-Semitic and downright racist; but, alas, it was in vain telling any of the deluded American Christians about this ugly fact. This movie was an abomination, the work of an evil person; and Mel Gibson's recent actions have proven this to be the case.

Another Hollywood filmmaker is Oliver Stone, who is now making a movie about Hitler, in which he is trying to rehabilitate the image of this monstrous dictator, who was responsible for the genocide of six million Jews in Europe. Then there is Michael Moore, who attacks everything sacred in America. The list goes on. The point is that there is a rise of fascist filmmaking in Hollywood that parallels the rise of fascism in Europe.

To expose this trend, there are significant movies emerging as documentaries, such as the movie by Israeli filmmaker Yael Hersonski, A FILM UNFINISHED. Finding an old Nazi film in the archives regarding the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, the filmmaker realized that this was an unfinished propaganda effort of the Nazis to dehumanize the Jewish residents of the occupied city and then to justify the extermination of the Jewish people there. The Nazi filmmakers developed a technique of juxtaposing wealthy Jews with poor Jews in the ghetto to show the lack of sympathy of the rich for the poor; this as a cultural anomaly of the Jewish people in general. Their plan was to show how the wealthy Jews were only concerned with their own selfish needs. They were portrayed as enjoying wealth, decadent entertainment, excessive fashion, and a greedy lifestyle. These wealthy Jews were depicted as not caring about the poor Jewish people in the ghetto, which lived like rats. The poor people in turn were shown living in poverty and unsanitary, overcrowded quarters. The Nazi filmmakers used mean and devilish methods of creating a bad image for the entire Jewish culture of that city. There was no area of lifestyle that was left untouched. Then, as if disgusted by all they had created through manipulation, the Nazi filmmakers abandoned the film and it remained for over half a century in a few film cans, barely marked with a reference to the Warsaw Ghetto.

The Israeli documentary team and the director took the footage and created a memorable record of this Nazi propaganda monstrosity. They showed exactly what the Nazis were trying to do to justify the murder of millions of Jews. This was the opposite of what the new fascist filmmakers are doing in Hollywood as they try to rehabilitate the image of fascism once more. Click here or on the poster of the film to the right to see the trailer.

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