Post subject: Louis Theroux docu: The most hated family in America
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:46 pm
Johnny Guitar
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Don't know if this has been discussed already, but this is a really great documentary. Louis Theroux spends some time with the Westboro Baptist Church, that mental church that pickets the funerals of dead soldiers with signs that read "God Hates Fags", and suchlike.
Theroux must be my favourite journalist, he has really perfected the art of interviewing nutcases like these guys.
Anyway the whole thing can be seen on youtube, really fascinating to watch:
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They hate God and worship the rectum...
haha.
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Louis also did a documentary for the BBC about skinheads which was pretty entertaining. You can find it on google video.
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Patrick Bateman wrote:
Grandpa seems nice enough. Are we sure it's not a South Park episode ?
Truth is stranger than fiction as they say. I love the parts where Louis is interviewing the 21 y/o girl in the family. You keep thinking that she is going to crack any second and admit that she wants to leave the cult. I actually felt sorry for her. And the young kids of course.
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Patrick Bateman wrote:
Grandpa seems nice enough. Are we sure it's not a South Park episode ?
Truth is stranger than fiction as they say. I love the parts where Louis is interviewing the 21 y/o girl in the family. You keep thinking that she is going to crack any second and admit that she wants to leave the cult. I actually felt sorry for her. And the young kids of course.
Yeah it kinda feels that every night she dreams about getting hammered and getting laid uh ?
I'm not sure how they can think that living a life of pure hate is gonna send them straight to heaven...
I still kind of hope the whole family dies in a freak accident, then i might start believing in God.
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What bugs me most about them is what bugs me about about most organized religion. They think that what they believe truly is 'the word of God,' and there s absolutely no leeway. Everyone is just plain wrong, about absolutely everything. How can a democracy possibly exist like that?
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That also weirds me out. That girl simply pushes away the outside world, refusing to make friends or date guys or do anything like that because she's obviously a little bit shy and its not easy, and she uses as her excuse the fact that noone likes her because she knows god's words. That's a lot easier than actually trying to exist in a world with other people.
It's similar to this friend of mine whose parents are from the "old country" with the old traditions and their plan is to go back to the "old country" and to find him a wife for when he graduates from school. He teases them and he says that he's going to marry a white girl, but he's actually going to marry the woman they bring him. Someone he's never met before. And it's simply because he's sort of shy and that's a lot easier. Religion pisses me off. If it challenges you and pushes you to do new things that benefit you and the world, that's one thing. But if it allows you to hide yourself from the world like that, I don't think it's a good thing.
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The Argonaut wrote:
That also weirds me out. That girl simply pushes away the outside world, refusing to make friends or date guys or do anything like that because she's obviously a little bit shy and its not easy, and she uses as her excuse the fact that noone likes her because she knows god's words. That's a lot easier than actually trying to exist in a world with other people. It's similar to this friend of mine whose parents are from the "old country" with the old traditions and their plan is to go back to the "old country" and to find him a wife for when he graduates from school. He teases them and he says that he's going to marry a white girl, but he's actually going to marry the woman they bring him. Someone he's never met before. And it's simply because he's sort of shy and that's a lot easier. Religion pisses me off. If it challenges you and pushes you to do new things that benefit you and the world, that's one thing. But if it allows you to hide yourself from the world like that, I don't think it's a good thing.
I do agree that she is shy and it may be an excuse. but ultimately thats the rhetoric of the entire family, so I think its engrained in all of them regardless of their own personal insecurety. I think its sad that they cant at least be allowed learn to relate to the rest of the world. but I guess if that happened those kids would realise their elders are full of shit and defect.
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"You know, I don't agree with the lifestyle-"
"Oh you do, yes you do. You love fags. Shut-up."
These people are totally insane
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I don't know if it just because he looks so much like Mo Rocca, or the fact that the family was just so incredibly batshit crazy, but it had a really heavy TDS feel to it. I think because they made such asses out of themselves, even without Louie trying.
I feel really really bad for the kids. I love how he kept pressing the issue that the little ones really didn't understand what it was they were saying or even protesting. Really sad all the way around, really.
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phelps family reminds me of the characters from this movie.. i dont know why...
