God Is American

[Technician]

This is a surreal documentary about a brief American military encounter on an island durring world war two and the influence it had on people who inhabit it.

The film is only an hour long.

[GreyGhost]

Heh - I think not.

"The inhabitants of some small villages in Vanuatu also worship Prince Philip as a god; the islanders possess portraits of the Duke and hold feasts on his birthday."

[Captain Red]

Expected a documentary about doctor Manhattan. Disappointed.

Spoiler

This is actually fascinating! Good find.

[Maes]

That joint the man lit at the beginning reminded of my father stories of how he and his gang used to smoke pine needles rolled up in newspapers, when he was a teen in the woods. When in the city, they could afford the "luxury" of smoking some chair straw.

[ducon]

Technician said:
God Is American

Yes, and she’s black.

[fraggle]

This phenomenon was the inspiration for Richard Feynman's speech on Cargo Cult Science.

As a similar level of bizarreness, check out the Prince Philip movement.

[DuckReconMajor]

I was totally caught off guard when the guy started talking about 9/11. Looks like this came out in 2007.

Anyway, it looks like we were wasting our time killing Bin Laden. The true mastermind is still out there.

Which brings up another point: I might have not been watching carefully enough, but it seemed like they were both praising and bashing America. First, the guy tells everyone he sent Bin Laden to blow up WTC, then they say they are waiting for the United States to "save them".

[Hellbent]

Are these the people James Cook 'rescued' at Easter Island?

[Technician]

DuckReconMajor said:

Which brings up another point: I might have not been watching carefully enough, but it seemed like they were both praising and bashing America. First, the guy tells everyone he sent Bin Laden to blow up WTC, then they say they are waiting for the United States to "save them".

I found these people to be very confusing. They see Americans as a sort of demigod. They consider themselves to be American. They show patronage by hanging the American flag, but then at the end they seem to see America needing cleansing, or something. It catches you off guard.

[Aliotroph?]

There's a documentary about a group of Prince Philip believers going to Britain:

[Johnatone]

Damn, I thought this was about the Bowie song.

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=slKNd22GGaQ

[bytor]

"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor.
That's my dream; that's my nightmare.
Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving."

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