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RE: Movie Review: Trash Fire (2016)
Hypocrisy with its art of saying things one doesn't really mean, and then judging people - it all sounds pretty much like the good old self righteousness to me.
Hypocrisy, in fact, seems like a natural feature in a society like that because it'd be necessary for survival. God be merciful to those who become such mob's targets; I'm guessing the expertise they'd have to develop in all that in order to survive would equal to going insane.
If you are in charge there's no chance to get insane. What is preached is believed and all faith is put in the 'fact' god speaks to them and they are almighty.
In the village I lived I found one doctor was different from the rest of the village. Het told me how he had been called to an accident. Het had to scrape the body of little child of the road. The child was hit by a car. Dad told him to cross the traffic road.
Father ordered the boy to cross the road. The child was run over by a car. The only thing the father said was: it is God's will. So the suffering is over. It must be easy to think like that. No sorrow, no burden of shame or guilt. Everything is simply God's will.
I have never been able to deal with this and have never understood it, but I have seen that it is not so much a rock-solid trust in god with the accompanying contentment and happy life, but a piece of brain damage. Perhaps inbreeding on the bible belt is the result of this. A normal conversation is unfortunately not possible, there is no room for a different opinion or even questions about what is preached. Questioning what a person says is life-threatening.
Glitch (season 2/3 I believe) paints a good picture of what life looks like and the 'loyalty' some feel.
Perhaps it isn't brain damage, but the reflection of the sense of self worth? I mean, if someone isn't seeing their own life amounting to much, that may then extend to everyone else around them. Moreover, if one considers the fact that one of the fundamentals in respective religion is the sense of being a worthless sinner in the eyes of God; who is pretty much a ruthless despot...
But all of that, of course, is just my speculation, based largely on some things I have myself observed in parts of society where doctrines, dogmas and a general shortage of available information prevail.
Thanks for mentioning Glitch. I however don't know which one of the three different series you mean. And I can return the favor if you're interested - Salem series from a few years ago. There's a good part of that hypocrisy and survival involved that I have mentioned earlier.
I hope you can see this link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4192782/
This is the Glitch I meant.
You can be right if it comes to being the sinner for ever. It always gave me the creeps and still does today.
Watched 'Early warning' with a friend (see youtube 1981 film) and to be honest the Christian attitude is the biggest problem why certain news, messages are not taken seriously.
I'm going to search for Salem. Thank you.