Great review, Mike, although I thought the movie was great in spite of the fact that it was such a blatant piece of propaganda. Here are a few of the worst examples of the propaganda in the movie. The older brother of the two terrorists was Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He was the real instigator of the bombing — his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was just following his lead. I discovered on the Internet that the Russians had warned both the FBI and the CIA repeatedly that Tamerlan was a dangerous Muslim terrorist. But nothing was done — Tamerlan was freely allowed to travel back and forth between Chechnya and the USA. Why?
Well, the answer to that is also on the Internet. It’s because Tamerlan was a paid FBI informant. The FBI might have had good intentions — discovering plots by hiring the radicals themselves to inform on each other. But they can’t get away from the fact that it was their own guy who did the bombing. But for some reason — gee, I wonder why — these facts never made it into a movie that might as well have been one big pro-FBI puff piece. In reality, the FBI were worse than the Keystone Cops.
The most blatant piece of propaganda was having the two brothers rather clumsily announce that 9/11 was done by the US government, rather than being done by those Saudi terrorists. If you just think about it for a minute, it makes no sense at all. The Tsarnaev brothers are terrorists, and proud of it, and so you’d think they’d be proud as hell about those pilots from Saudi Arabia. Instead, they’re saying they didn’t do it? Why?
That, too, is obvious if you think about it. It’s because they’re the bad guys. By having the evil bad guys say that 9/11 was done by the US government, it makes anyone who believes the government was somehow involved in 9/11 look like they’re bad guys, too. (Only bad guys would believe something so unpatriotic.)
This latter piece of propaganda was inserted into the film rather blatantly and obviously. Why? Why is it so important to the powers that be to go to so much trouble to discredit the theory that the government was somehow involved in 9/11?
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the answer to that question.