God Bless America (2011)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2011
	Director: Bobcat Goldthwait
	Actors: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Mackenzie Brooke
	Country: USA
	Genre: Black comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 29.08.2012, CINEMA theater, MFFF2012
Synopsis: A man with nothing to live for anymore decides to punish all the people that are "not nice", especially the ones seen on TV.
Review: I found that the idea for this movie was good but feared that it would be limited to that. Hopefully it was not the case. The main character (who reminds me Dan Aykroyd) and his young "side-kick" are well written and their motivation well presented throughout the film. You can find in this movie a bitter criticism of many things, but mainly of the trash we are being served on TV. The action takes place in the US of A, but the examples we see from TV shows could come from European ones. Beyond that, a deeper message in the movie is people's behavior in this new society where the lowest human qualities are advertised and the weaks get ridiculized for the entertainment of the masses. The main character compares this behavior to the ancien Rome Colliseum in an interesting quasi-monologue at the beginning of the movie, and he says that in a society this phase always preceeds a downfall...
Rating: 8 /10