‘2016’ movie revealing Obama’s roots aims to rock presidential campaign
August 8, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new movie due out for wide release this month is being advertised as a hard-hitting exposé of Barack Obama and his policy goals - and is already making waves in the countdown to November 2012.
2016, by famed conservative journalist Dinesh D’Souza together with Schindler’s List producer Gerald Molen, looks at both President Obama’s ideological roots from his childhood and youth, as well as his plan for America based on those underpinnings should he win a second term.
The new flick gave a hint of how it might resonate with audiences when it packed the single Texas theater that displayed a preview last month, grossing $32,000 in its opening weekend as moviegoers waited in lines for up to an hour and a half to meet the filmmakers, according to FOX News.
D’Souza told the Christian Post that moviegoers will learn just how much they didn’t know about the current president, and the extent of the radical anti-colonialist ideology D’Souza says is the real source of America’s staggering debt crisis. The film’s trailer pins Obama’s ideology on the legacy of his father, Barack Obama Sr., who resented the power wielded by America over the rest of the world: “Obama has a dream, a dream from his father: that the sins of colonialism be set right, and America be downsized.”
“Obama’s goal is to shrink America,” D’Souza told the Christian Post. “He wants to reduce America’s footprint in the world because he thinks we are stepping on the world.”
The movie is based on D’Souza’s two books, The Roots of Obama’s Rage (2010) and Obama’s America, which is due out this month. The title, he said, was chosen “because we want audiences to question what the implications are, and what the world would look like in 2016 if he is re-elected.”
The movie probes Obama’s relationships with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Chicago domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, and Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis, as well as other radical leaders in his past. “It is a real mystery how he managed to convince so many Americans to vote for him, and how some of his deepest beliefs have gone unscrutinized,” said D’Souza.
Although the election is not mentioned in the film except for in its final words, the journalist said the impact and timing of the film was inspired by none other than Farenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore.
“I feel embarrassed to say that because Michael Moore’s ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ is an intellectual disaster, but nevertheless that film was about a controversial president and it was received at a time when one half of the country was for the president and one half was against him and it was dropped in the middle of an election,” he said. “So that gave me the idea to make a film under similar conditions – controversial president, one half of the country is for him, one half is against him, and drop it in the middle of this year’s debate.
“But I wanted to make and have made a very different kind of a film that is not fast with the facts and is intellectually and factually very sound. So far, no one has alleged the contrary.”
The movie, which has already opened in a handful of theaters, is due for release on over 400 screens throughout August.
2016: Obama's America
Synopsis
2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film also answers the question, "If Obama is re-elected, where will we be in 2016?"
Across the globe and in America, people in 2008 hungered for a leader who would unite and lift us from economic turmoil and war. True to America’s ideals, they invested their hope in a new kind of president, Barack Obama. What they didn't know is that Obama is a man with a past, and in powerful ways that past defines him--who he is, how he thinks, and where he intends to take America and the world.Immersed in exotic locales across four continents, best selling author Dinesh D’Souza races against time to find answers to Obama’s past and reveal where America will be in 2016. During this journey he discovers how Hope and Change became radically misunderstood, and identifies new flashpoints for hot wars in mankind’s greatest struggle. The journey moves quickly over the arc of the old colonial empires, into America’s empire of liberty, and we see the unfolding realignment of nations and the shape of the global future.
Emotionally engaging, 2016 Obama’s America will make you confounded and cheer as you discover the mysteries and answers to your greatest aspirations and worst fears. Love him or hate him, you don’t know him.
For a list of theaters playing 2016: Obama's America click here.
http://www.movietomovement.com/en-us/nowplaying/movie.aspx?id=59
Yep.
That stinks about the cinema! :-(
We go see the cheaper matinee. I'd complain to the manager about the popcorn.
Quoting PeeperSqueak:
Interesting......I hope to see it. Is this the same movie that Momzie posted a trailer of somewhere in this group ? And the picture with BO in an abandoned bulding ?
Will have to wait till it comes out on CD tho....we're too poor to go to a cinema : ( My youngest went to see Diary of a Wimpy kid with a friend the other day....he had $10 card...I thought it would be enough. Had to pay a balance of $9 a shell out another $10 for a small....very small bag of popcorn that was burnt : (
It was the cheaper matinee ! Wish I was there with him and I would've. The Dollar Tree popcorn is so much better ! A decent size bag for $1 : ) It was his 1st time in a movie cinema...he was so excited but is now disappointed.
Quoting imamomzilla:Yep.
That stinks about the cinema! :-(
We go see the cheaper matinee. I'd complain to the manager about the popcorn.
Quoting PeeperSqueak:
Interesting......I hope to see it. Is this the same movie that Momzie posted a trailer of somewhere in this group ? And the picture with BO in an abandoned bulding ?
Will have to wait till it comes out on CD tho....we're too poor to go to a cinema : ( My youngest went to see Diary of a Wimpy kid with a friend the other day....he had $10 card...I thought it would be enough. Had to pay a balance of $9 a shell out another $10 for a small....very small bag of popcorn that was burnt : (
Most conspiracy theories have their basis in fact. And a lot of people bought into the BS Michael Moore said in his movie, despite the blatant lying going on that was proven time and time again. The key with any documentary is to do your own fact check.
Quoting _Kissy_:
It'll be a hit just like palins movie.
No one but conspiracy theorists buy into it.
No one cares.
Well that's probably because Soros pretty much owns it.
Quoting blondekosmic15:
Media Matters...no thx. About as credible as George Soros and the Socialist Party USA. The link you provided shimamab is as radical as Obama. Common sense 101. You are the company you keep! This is a partial list of Barack Obama's many radical associates during his life~
Lois Lerner, IRS Official, On Leave Of Absence: Reports
- blondekosmic15
on Aug. 12, 2012 at 11:09 PM