Dinesh D’Souza’s new documentary, America: Imagine the World Without Her, opened this week. You can see the trailer at the official website here.
Some patriots may want to watch the film over the Independence Day weekend. There are a few greater Cleveland venues showing the film. Check here for the theater nearest you (and be sure to call in advance to confirm the showtimes). Whether you plan to go or not, here is Andrew Klavan’s preview/review on PJ Media:
Dinesh D’Souza’s anti-Obama
2012 documentary 2016: Obama’s
America was a surprise smash hit, earning 33 million
dollars to make it one of the most successful American documentaries ever. The
film put forward D’Souza’s thesis that Obama’s need to feel himself worthy of
an absent radical father caused him to view America as a guilty colonialist
power that had to be taken down a peg. It predicted that America’s enemies
would grow stronger and its friends weaker as Obama progressed toward the end
of his term. Much of what it predicted has come true.
You could tell D’Souza had hit
a nerve when Obama toadies like Maureen Dowd went on the attack, accusing the Indian
immigrant of racism! (What an original way for a leftist to counter an argument
she doesn’t like. Funny no leftist has ever thought of it before.) But if we
needed any further proof that D’Souza had in fact tapped into a rich mine of
truth, it came when the federal government, now an oppressive arm of a corrupt
Chicago-style Democrat machine, caught the author and filmmaker in a minor transgression of campaign finance laws and
threatened to throw him in prison for over a decade. (This, after all, is the
way this administration deals with inconvenient filmmakers, as we know. It’s quicker than the
whole illegally-misuse-the-IRS-then-lose-the-evidence thing.)
D’Souza pled guilty; says
he made a mistake; admits he’s not above the law. What he hasn’t done is fall
silent in fear. Instead, he’s courageously produced a follow-up to the movie
that got beneath this corrupt president’s thin skin and I’m delighted to report
it’s a very good one.
America:
Imagine The World Without Her begins by letting leftists
tell why they hate this country, as they so obviously do. D’Souza doesn’t argue
with them or try to make them look stupid. He lets them say exactly what they
have to say: we stole the country from the Washington Redskins, we enslaved
blacks, we murdered all those nice Vietnamese people, capitalism is greed, we
suck.
D’Souza examines the way
these arguments have become gospel to the left through the insidious work of
“historian” Howard Zinn and the genuinely sinister activism of Saul Alinsky,
spiritual mentor to both Obama and Hillary Clinton. And then D’Souza takes the
left’s narrative apart by the simple technique of putting our “crimes” in the
context of the rest of history and the actions of other countries throughout
the world. Turns out — as rock star Bono says in the most moving scene in the
picture — America is a terrific nation that has transformed the world for the
good and continues to do so today.
Throughout the movie,
D’Souza’s love for his adopted country comes shining through. His argument is
poignant, powerful and convincing. Hey, you don’t even have to see it to know
I’m right. You just have to read the nuanced, subtle, considered views of
leftists who are already calling the film “nuts,” and a “total piece of junk,” and “the worst political documentary of all time.” Which
is Leftese for “a good movie that tells the truth.”
It isn’t often I get to
recommend a conservative work so wholeheartedly, but I’m just about positive
you’ll like this, especially if you’re a patriot or simply an honest person
ready to hear a different take than the one you’ve been getting at the movies
for the last 50 years.
D’Souza’s a tough guy for
not backing down, and a talented guy for delivering a strong sophomore effort.
We need about 20 more like him.
Happy Independence Day!
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