"WORLD WAR Z" - a Propaganda Breather?
July 12, 2013
Reader Jeff Goines saw "World War Z" to analyze the propaganda but, in the end, "couldn't find anything to complain about."
Maybe the propaganda was more subtle: "In the film, the UN and Israel are the only functioning governments with intact military. The US role is dismissed in one line, "The President is dead." The military hardware looks American, but except for the IDF in Israel, everybody's wearing UN blue camouflage fatigues."
by Jeff Goines
(henrymakow.com)
I have been reluctant to go to a movie again to pay for brainwashing, but weighing pros and cons decided to see if the new mind control technology lives up to the reputation. (The good news was finding that the early 3D showing was only $7.50)
Now the movie plot and story review. Yes, there was propaganda. The movie starts with a montage of television new reports on world changes due to 'climate change'. Pan out to Pitt's daughter's watching this crap on TV and not paying any attention to it. It's a cozy domestic scene of a affluent urbane mom and dad getting ready to drive the kids to private school.
Two things here. You'll notice later when watching this film that the script fails to follow through with 'climate change' being blamed for the Zombie virus. Aside from lines, "nature is a serial killer' from a virologist, the cause of the virus is never explained. Only lines like, "airports were the perfect delivery system" - which may remind older viewers that this isn't Pitt's first 'apocalyptic virus pandemic' movie. Remember 'Twelve Monkeys'? [1]
By failing to establish a connection between global warming and the zombie pandemic, they may have blown it. I didn't feel concerned about either climate change OR pandemics.
(left. Hoarders/looters must have Budweiser beer.)The film also failed to alienate me from my fellow man. When I was leaving the theater, people still looked normal to me. If the movie had done it's Hollywood magic, strangers would look like zombies - at least for a couple hours. I experienced no 'transference' of perception of real strangers as zombies.
Maybe I missed the intent. In the film, the UN and Israel are the only functioning governments with intact military. The US role is dismissed in one line, "The President is dead." The military hardware looks American, but except for the IDF in Israel, everybody's wearing UN blue camouflage fatigues.
PROPAGANDA DUD
I found the propaganda minimal. The action is moving too fast, the scene too chaotic, for heavy handed political preaching. Overall. the Israelis are presented not as more intelligent than the other countries, they're just quicker to take drastic action before anybody else.
Not fast enough in this movie, though. Despite their early response, Jerusalem is overrun with the zombie horde. But I saw no attempt at all at a metaphor for Arab zombies. The zombies are too numerous and move too fast to make any impression of their politics or ethnicity. They're just your generic mob.
Valiant IDF soldiers are shown fighting heroically as the zombies plow them under like Zulu Dawn. But there's not a single frame of zombies dressed like stereotypical suicide bombers or Hezbolah. It wouldn't have worked if they had -- it would be too cheesy. Thank God Stephen Spielberg didn't direct it!
There's no Messianic age message - Israel doesn't save the world in the move.
I've read reviews that the movie was fraught with problems and tons of scenes ended up on the cutting floor. Some reviewers observed that the movie reads like those overly ambitious movies with preachy scenes that didn't work and had to be cut. I'd have to read Max Brooks novel Oral History of the Zombie War to know what was cut. Brooks and reviewers say very little of the book made into WWZ.
PATRIARCHAL FAMILY CELEBRATED Back to the plot: after Jerusalem succumbs to zombies there's nobody left but the UN and the World Health Organization. By their behavior, I had trouble telling if the UN and WHO characters were the good guys or villains. I'll explain.
I must say that the nuclear family is the 'hero' of the film. Pitt is the masculine patriarch of a perfect heterosexual nuclear family. The film established good character development here. The only way Pitt and his family escape the city is because the UN needs him. But later when he's on his mission and they believe he's been killed, they dump his little family in a UN concentration camp.......er......I mean refugee protection camp. When Pitt learns of this somebody says, "but they'll be safe there". Pitt says, "No, they won't".
Critics complain that the movie ends abruptly with the world still in chaos. Ar the end, Pitt narrates that there's still much to be done and we have to work together to rebuild the world. I really didn't get it.
Maybe people that watch a lot of TV would be triggered to emotional response to things that simply didn't affect me. My college buddy sees Muslim suicide bombers around every corner, so he seemed to get a completely different impression of the movie. He thinks zombies are a metaphor for Muslims.
Nevertheless I didn't find anything to complain about with the movie. In fact, family values are the strongest meme in the film. Pitt is also a good Samaritan, saving the lives of characters the script let us begin to care about. They start out as total strangers and form bonds with Pitt in the crisis.
The UN characters get a "C" for their humanity. They come off as people whose humanity takes a seat behind following orders.
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[1] 'Twelve monkeys' (1995) - was a masterpiece of predictive programming handled by master Illuminatus Terry Gilliam. When I thought of that and compare these two films, I wonder what Pitt was thinking.
another view
---Brandon Hudson, WWZ Race Gender & Geopolitics
Makow comment- Maybe the propaganda/brainwashing consists in the plethora of movie fantasies which have little to do with social or political reality. The masses are presented a fantasy world while in the real world, the Illuminati are impoverishing and despoiling the planet while consolidating their police state with false flag "terrorist" attacks.
Mark said (July 19, 2013):
Just had another look at "World War Z" -- a Propaganda breather?
What? The author finds little or no propaganda? In his own words there is the fall of America, the ascension of the U.N., the Zionist State and Jerusalem as world headquarters for the Satanic NWO one world new age religion and government, made possible by the Ordo Ab Cao engineered crisis of the war of, and between the zombies/useless eaters killing each other off for their owners and controllers to bring in The New.
Regardless that the cause of the zombie virus and climate change go unmentioned (still, the implication is that there are too many of us, consuming and excreting too much, and traveling too much through their airport virus delivery system), the mere fact that they exist -- and are suitably hyped, making the viewer all the more suggestible through the fear factor -- is enough to traumatize the public into empowering world government to take away more of their rights and micro-manage their lives to keep'em safe from so many of the problems that they, the elite, are largely responsible for.