Zeitgeist *****

RATING: ****
Broken into 3 sections (past, present, and future), the film seeks to explain not the force, but signs of the appearance of its power as it has caused some rather dubious (and difficult to explain) occurances throughout history.

One star short of a perfect rating, Zeitgeist fails to explain that the "people" who are on a mission to control everything are being guided by their own evil spiritual force, caused by something we can't quite place our finger on.  Is it greed? gluttony?  An insatiable urge to submit the world to their will?  Or something else...

Loose Change ****

Rating:  *****
This is an excellent example of an independent investigation of 9-11.  This is not an amateur independent investigation.  The opinions presented are of experts, the testimonies are from first-hand witnesses, and the official explanations are straight from the people who were the officials.  The voices of protest are the loudest from those who were actually there, and the conflicting reports are from the uninformed news media.  One of the more remarkable things about it would be the BBC reporter announcing the unexpected collapse of building seven, while 7 is clearly visible behind her.

Of course, the difficult part about watching something like this is handling all of the facts, and how poorly they're dismissed by members of authority.  It's also suspicious, the way that the authority is passed along to people like Henry Kissinger, who as the film points out, is more known for his ability of keeping secrets from the American public than informing them (as head of the 9/11 commission).  The eyewitness accounts are unbearably similar, and resonate in frequency as each one points out the same blatant facts.  The only thing confusing about the message is what exactly this means.

I'm also not sure if it's pointed out, but a Bush family member was in charge of security in the twin towers just before this event happened.  There were also talks about how there was alot of "DataCom" work going on in the buildings, and that parts of it had been shut off.  That's all anecdotal evidence, none of which is in this film. Only factual evidence.

Kymatica ***

This film explores the idea that the Planet is a conscious being, and shapes the concept behind what might be considered a new form of Global Religion, stemming that the new age will reveal new boundaries between human beings.  While Global Government seeks to extend its aim at controlling economies to enslave the masses, Global Religion seeks to free people from it by fighting the ultimate passive battle.

JFK 2: The Bush Connection ****

Rating:  ***


Synopsis

CIA/Skull and Bones piloted the invasion of Cuba in 1959 with oil interests in mind.  Bay of Pigs invasion failed, obtained international attention.  According to the theory, JFK did not have any knowledge of the plans for the invasion.  Feeling that the CIA was operating on its own jurisdiction, he sent the FBI out to shut down the "Anti-Castro Cuban" bases being run by the FBI.  Hoover sent Oswald, a former CIA agent with ties to being cast as a socialist, to infiltrate the bases.  After shutting down the New Orleans base, Oswald is sent to Dallas.  The president is assassinated with the cooperation of the CIA and the secret service under top level CIA directives.  Oswald is framed.  Ruby (Jack Rubenstein, a former Nixon staffer in his California office) is sent to silence Oswald, and then lives in silence until he dies of lung cancer in jail.


Summary
This work is one of the most comprehensive views on these events.  While some of it goes above and beyond reason, most of it offers facts as a legitimate basis for hypotheses, and provides some decent character sketches and motivating forces behind historical events.  Most interesting are the connections between the person charged with perpetrating Watergate (E. Howard Hunt), Nixon, and George Bush Sr.  Also, it is interesting that Nixon was in Dallas on that day, and gave two different stories about where he was when he found out about the assassination.  It's remarkable because the two stories were actually published, and that's how we know of his selective recollection.  That's particularly odd, because anyone born no later than 1950 remembers exactly where they were when they found out, and who told them.  This is a remarkable fact and you can try it on old people.  It still works.

Additional Reading

Cord Meyer

Mary Pinchot

E Howard Hunt

Money As Debt ****

Rating:  ****
Summary:

Contains topics touched upon in the last section of Zeitgeist.  It follows the transgression or history of money as it actually unfolded.  Points out at the very beginning that most of us have never been briefed on how banking really works.  Everything about this documentary, probably more so than many of the other movies reviewed, is on point and can't really be argued with in terms of accuracy, factualness, or relevance.

Just like many of the other films here reviewed on Phiction, this film is intended to portray the world as it really works, which is not the way that it's generally assumed to work.  And like the others, it may try to imply why things work this way.  The answer is simple:  the people in power want to keep control into the hands of as few people as possible.  The entire system is set up that way, and this particular film makes that point in a clear, concise way.

The animations seem amateur, but the purpose is to give the narrative some visualization.  Taken alone, without the images and only the voice, it would make a perfectly good radio show.

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward *****

Makes more sense than any of the previous installments of the Zeitgeist series.  It shows how the world is obsessed with a total commitment to acquisition, and how it's not an institution like a corporation or the government that is to blame, but the social construction of the human mind.  It doesn't really go to share exactly how society evolves, however it does imply that social evolution is inevitable, which is obvious but never so in your face like this.