Geert Wilders is the leader of the Dutch neocon Freedom Party, a fairly new political party-in-opposition, which basically aspires to strip Dutch Muslims of many of their civil rights, like the right to vote, hold public office (local or national), serve in the army, or have a Quran at home. Unfortunately, Wilders' drivenness doesn't automatically make him a gifted (or even passable) film maker - unless you count blunt propaganda as film and don't care for quality, relevance, or accuracy.
The basic outline of this "film" is pretty simplistic, as propaganda usually is. First, Wilders shows us that terrorism and extremism are bad - which we already know. Then he moves to warning us that if we don't act soon, the Netherlands will probably become a country of burqa-clad women, bloodied-beaten children, random beheadings and public executions of gays. With a Muslim population of 5% (a vast majority being liberal Muslims), this scenario is far-fetched, to say the least. But Wilders doesn't care: he is convinced the country is already halfway "islamized", top government positions included.
An attitude like that definitely doesn't help making a good or balanced "critical film"... and it shows. Painfully.
The quality is VERY amateurish, much of the cut-and-paste material is outdated, irrelevant or used without permission (several copyright lawsuits are already pending), the quoted Quran verses are mistranslated or incomplete, and suggesting that Dutch Muslims in general supported the 9/11 attacks, apparently strive to dominate the Netherlands and plan to impose sharia law on us Dutchies is just too ridiculous for words.
Wilders clearly aims to install fear. But the only fear he has installed in me so far, is the fear of having to watch 16 minutes of bad, bad film making.
The basic outline of this "film" is pretty simplistic, as propaganda usually is. First, Wilders shows us that terrorism and extremism are bad - which we already know. Then he moves to warning us that if we don't act soon, the Netherlands will probably become a country of burqa-clad women, bloodied-beaten children, random beheadings and public executions of gays. With a Muslim population of 5% (a vast majority being liberal Muslims), this scenario is far-fetched, to say the least. But Wilders doesn't care: he is convinced the country is already halfway "islamized", top government positions included.
An attitude like that definitely doesn't help making a good or balanced "critical film"... and it shows. Painfully.
The quality is VERY amateurish, much of the cut-and-paste material is outdated, irrelevant or used without permission (several copyright lawsuits are already pending), the quoted Quran verses are mistranslated or incomplete, and suggesting that Dutch Muslims in general supported the 9/11 attacks, apparently strive to dominate the Netherlands and plan to impose sharia law on us Dutchies is just too ridiculous for words.
Wilders clearly aims to install fear. But the only fear he has installed in me so far, is the fear of having to watch 16 minutes of bad, bad film making.