Movie Review: Religulous
Think of this as sort a ten second movie review.
The movie was, predictably, painfully funny. Maher fearlessly confronts a bunch of Faithers and feeds their cognitive dissonance back to them.
There were times when he was out of line, there were times when it wasn’t effective as it could have been.
What this movie was, however, was a movie targeted to a specific audience. It was not intended to sway fence sitters or the moderately religious. What this movie was intended to do is to encourage the 16% of Americans who are actively irreligious to start openly questioning the religious, and to start bonding as a minority in the country.
And as that, this movie may be effective. I don’t know. There are a lot of irreligious folks who don’t believe that Faith actively does harm, and I don’t know if this will sway them. But it’s an attempt at a call to action, and Bless His Heart for making it. ;-) Pun intended.
I saw this movie, too. Like you, I enjoyed it for what it was. I often found myself wishing for a more serious movie though, or at least a documentarian who didn’t feel compelled to make jokes in the middle of his interviews. But, that’s another movie…
I’m still waiting for Dawkins to make a full length movie. He does a good job doing sort of what Maher did, but in a more serious fashion. Still without offending the people who don’t deserve to be offended, though. :-)