Am I Racist? - Documentary Comedy Film

Never heard of Matt Walsh. Looking up on him he seems to be some poundshop Joe Rogan edgelord.

Doesn't look great at all tbh. I'm well over 'documentary' comedies about making Americans look stupid at this stage.

Where did you see it? Is it in any cinema? Or are you a member of their website daily wire?

*Reads post above*

Yup, no racism in Ireland at all. Nothing to see here.

Edit: Post I was referring to was deleted.

I think JU's post is a fair enough commentary regarding the people who made/produced/funded the film and therefore which way the film will be heavily skewed towards, rather than the topic or film itself. Same as how anyone would comment regarding an actor, writer or director.

Matt Walsh & the likes of Ben Shapiro are bad-faith personas who are never going to allow anything which wouldn't fit their purview into the film lest it upset their target audience. There's probably one interview in the film where someone counters Walsh's argument and he says "That's actually a good point" to give the perception of balance and considering the opposing viewpoint, before getting back to the idea that "Ah, racism is a little bit bad, but it's not as bad as people suggest, and therefore I'm right."

That's why as a documentary, I think this would be utterly pointless to watch. It's unlikely going to be about properly delving into a topic, its effects etc. It's mostly going to be Matt Walsh just pushing his opinion/viewpoint in carefully selected and edited interviews and voiceovers of data which skews towards his viewpoint.

I read it was more like a Borat type film, I'd hardly call that a documentary

Right, by carefully selecting and curating that which fits into their narrative rather than discussing or engaging in a topic. So as a comedy film if that's what someone is into, fair enough. As a documentary (and considering your previous most apt comparison to this film was Borat), it's not going to be worth watching.

Borat was a film lampooning American culture in general though. It came out at a time when they didn't have this ridiculous left/right culture war nonsense going on.

I just watched the trailer again as a matter of interest. 'Am I Racist?' is entirely different and very politically driven by the looks of things.

Compare that to this, completely different.

If he's religious, maybe he should urn his attention to that next given the influence religious nutters have on society.

You can get absolutely everything you need to form an opinion about this film from the trailer.

Just watched the trailer there, looks like a laugh but I don't think I could stick a whole 101 minutes of it. This probably said it shorter and better...

I used to be drawn to this kind of stuff online. But it really is just twats trolling (and not in a good way). Matt Walsh and all the others that have been named in this tread are as bad as the people they are trying to lampoon or one up.

Their content is boarder than an episode of Mrs Browns boys and couldn't be any more "lowest common denominator" if they tried. They only target the extremes who are so far off the deep end it's almost unbelieveable. Shooting nutbags in a barrel. Isn't it amazing how they never debate or interview measured, normal Joe and Josephine Soap types?

That black women talking about America in the trailer? In real world life, people like that don't exist.

This is basically going to be Borat, if Borat during and after every "bit" gave a little nod and a wink to the audience to reassure them that he knows the story and is the smartest guy in the room.

I think Dave Chappelle says it best . .

It's yank culture-war nonsense. Wanting to preach to the choir and giving their audience an excuse to cry about being marginalised and playing victim because reviewers "won't review it" and the like.

I haven't seen it, but i've watched the trailer, read reviews and I listened to Walsh on Rogan yesterday discuss the topics and the film in depth and 2.5 hours.

I remember a good few years ago Bill Maher made a documentary caled "Religious" where he was supposed to be playing "Devil's Advocate" with religious types and asking them all sorts of questions about their faith.

I'm athiest, I dislike organised religion and what the Catholic Church did to this country over the years makes me angry. It should make everyone angry. In general, my opinions would have aligned with Maher at the time on said subject.

However, did I enjoy watching a smarmy man take pot-shots at religious folk and do the "documentary" version of pointing and laughing at them whilst saying "aren't these people idiots? We're so much smarter than them"

Nope! It's cheap. And this is cheap.

If you're actively looking to seek this out in an Irish cinema then my suggestion would be to get off social media, take a step back from your focus on the US and their dumb culture war and try to concentrate on fun things in life. You'll be happier.

I'd watch the film before you make your mind up about it. That seems obvious. Otherwise you're jumping to conclusions. By the way theres no left, and theres no right. Theres only truth and lies, thats all theres ever been. Everything else has been fabricated by society and driven by the media. You're either on the side of truth or lies, its that simple.

In context, it was an obvious joke

"With The Little Mermaid, can we just mention that, from a scientific perspective, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have someone with darker skin who lives deep in the ocean," Walsh said.

"If anything, not only should The Little Mermaid be pale, she should actually be translucent," he said, adding that if you "look at deep sea creatures they're like translucent. They have no kind of pigmentation whatsoever. And they're just like these horrifying skeletons floating around in the ocean.

"That's what The Little Mermaid should look like, she should be totally pale and skeletal where you can see her skull through her face, and that would actually be a version of The Little Mermaid I would watch."

https://www.newsweek.com/matt-walsh-slammed-online-saying-black-little-mermaid-not-scientifically-accurate-1743240

Always good to see people shining a light on the crazies in politics. I wonder what he will do next; look at the influence of young earth creationists, the influence of the left behind believers, politicians who believe in weather altering technology, someone who believes in a massive conspiracy to engage in large scale election fraud that there is no evidence for. Or maybe not, as that really doesn't impact people.

I'd love to see him do a documentary on the climate change crazies. That'd be box office

I'm pretty sure it doesn't have much of a market here tbh. Pretty sure the average person on the left would simply not care.

I'm sure it means something in certain corners of reddit.