Foxfyre; I'm going tomorrow afternoon and I'm asking my son (a Ron Paul supporter) to join me, but what did you mean that, "It was not at all what Mr. Foxfyre was expecting?"
He mentioned that he thought it would show America in decay, Wrigly Field grown up in weeds, and stuff like that.
It doesn't. But I will be interested in you and your son's opinion about the conclusion D'Souza offered in the closing minutes of the documentary. Please report back.
I went today with my son, and we didn't discuss it afterwards. There were a total of 21 people in the theater, with the movie running between 2:30 - 4:00 matinee hours.
It was what I expected from the trailers; a look at the presidents formative experiences and influences from his father and his mother, who kept or raised his father in an exalted , honored position in their small and erratically changing family; this even though B. O. Senior fathered other children by other mothers, and was still married to another woman when he married and fathered Obama.
Fathers influence sons, whether directly or indirectly as an ideal, probably more so when the son does not see the flaws, as when the father is missing, or interact in conflicting ways with the father in the father son relationship. One only has to consider the environment in which his father developed to get an understanding how that affect would be manifested in the developing Barrack.
It was a more or less clinical look at the family history from its initial geneses to the matriculation of Obama, and it's no surprise that he found a mentor and or fellow traveler who reminded him of his idealized missing father to whose "dreams" he dedicated his own biography, almost as a mission statement. His mentors are Frank Marshal Davis, William Ayers, and less directly, Saul Alinsky as a philosophical inspiration.
His brother, George, is completely different in his philosophical leanings in that he sees the flaws in the existing political situation in the 3rd world as opposed to the developing world like (SingaIpore, South Korea, and even mentions South Africa) which he sees as being superior, and believes it could be improved if it were more in the model of America/U.S. and South Africa as better off because it was more tardily released from colonialism.
He does not fault his brother for not providing for him, seeing himself as being responsible for himself, as an adult. He was interesting to watch, exhibiting a certain "cynicism" in his demeanor, which may have only been his expectation of the types of questions he expected about his brother from his past experience.
The “2016” reference relates to the recognition that President Obama, given a full two terms will most certainly fundamentally change America by their completion. It’s up to the voter (and the viewer informed by the film) if the change, which is going to be a leveling one for America, is the change they want to see brought about, because his father, as a formative/influential model for Barrack, strongly opposed all colonial powers, so you can imagine how this will figure into Barrack’s policies in a country that is anathema to his utopian vision, whatever that was.
If I get the chance to do so I will recommend it to others, even my liberal friends and I wish it could be aired on TV prior to the election.
