If you think Inception is a film likely to start many a discussion after viewing, you should check out Zeitgeist. Then share your opinion of it with someone. Especially if you are of the opinion that the film is accurate, and that Jesus may have never existed. That discussion is sure to go beyond a mere critique of the film and perhaps even incite violence.
Zeitgeist is a documentary conspiracy theory film. That being said, it does not ask your opinion, it tells you what’s what, as perceived by the filmmaker Peter Joseph. It is sectioned in 3 parts: The Greatest Story Ever Told, All the World’s a Stage, and Don’t Mind the Men Behind the Curtain.
Part I deals with Christianity and claims that it is ultimately not “real,” but rather comprised of things that come from other religions, astrology, astronomy. It demonstrates this by comparing certain events (Jesus’s resurrection, the fact that he was born of a virgin, etc) to events in other theologies that have similar if not the same beliefs of their respective deities or saviors. It states things like the story of Jesus is taken from the Sun (in fact the narrator keeps using the phrase “Son of God” to accentuate this) and how the 3 stars of Orion’s belt (Three Kings) align with Sirius, and point toward the Sun, on the 25th of December. On this date, the Sun starts to shine more, thus the birth of the Sun/Son. The basic idea of this section is that Christianity, and therefore Jesus, is a myth.
Part II tells us the the 9/11 attacks were an “inside job.” It explains that the attacks on the World Trade Center were facilitated by our own government and that quite a bit of evidence and questionable facts were purposely ignored. For example, it is stated in the film that the towers were designed in such a fashion that they could withstand the force of planes crashing in to them, and that their structural collapse matched exactly that of a building that would have been commercially demolished. Furthermore, Tower 7, was never hit by a plane, and yet it collapsed as well. We hear from several civilians that were interviewed that there were explosions in the basements of the towers before the planes hit, suggesting that they were rigged with explosives. The basic idea of this section, is that the Government orchestrated certain acts of terror to allow us to become frightened and let the government pass any law it wants under the guise that it will protect us from terrorist attacks. In addition to that, that we will be less cautious about them wanting us to go to war, which then segues in to Part III.
Part III explains that the Federal Reserve Bank controls all. That we purposely engaged in behaviors that resulted in or helped to sustain WWI, WWII and Vietnam as it would make more profit for them. In a particularly interesting part of this section, the film states that there is something called the North American Union in which there basically are no borders that separate the U.S. from Canada and Mexico, and that there soon will be something called an “Amero,” which will become the entire continent’s currency. In addition to that, the North American Union will join together with other Unions and will be a “One World Government,” (which oddly enough, is an event some Christians believe to be a sign of the End Times) and will lead to the implanting of RFID chips in to everyone (another popular Christian belief that indicate the End Times) to track them (these actually already exist and are placed in passports, among other things). Once this occurs, our U.S. Constitution is then irrelevant. The basic idea of this section is that, generally speaking, the Government has plans that are in motion that we do not know about that could be quite devastating to our current way of life, and that in fact, we are not as free as we think we are. That we are brainwashed by media.
Now, I don’t subscribe to any particular religion. I don’t follow politics or the news as much as I probably should. However, this is quite an intriguing and somewhat alarming film. The filmmaker certainly backs his claims up with clips of interviews, speeches, press conferences and publications. How accurate they are, I don’t know. For example, in Part I, supposedly some of his claims about other religions are not entirely true. Overall the message is one that I think most, if not all of us can agree with: The Government is a corrupt, greedy and law breaking entity. While the filmmaker refers to Christianity as a myth, I think one could take a less specific message from this analysis and just resign to the idea that religion is mysterious and open to multiple interpretations.
The claims made in this film are certain to piss people off, but are valid concerns and definitely worth listening to, even if only for the 118 minute runtime. Perhaps my favorite part was when it was suggested that there is no law stating that we have to file taxes, and two former IRS agents claim that they had not paid taxes in years, one since 1999
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