Before leaving London this morning, I finished watching one of the most terrifying films I’ve ever seen: Uwe Boll’s ‘Citizen Vigilante’. It is not a good movie, technically speaking: it’s propagandistic, and full of holes (e.g., there are a hundred ways the Vigilante makes it easy for cops to identify him and track him down, but they never seem to do it). Narratively, it is a total mess. But technical excellence is not its point. It’s not even a good movie in the moral sense, more on which later. Not gonna lie, I felt dirty watching it.
But I’m glad I did, because it is an extremely powerful movie, for one reason: it tells forbidden but widely known truths about life in lawless Europe overrun by migrants, and it speaks deeply — deeply — to the sense of suppressed outrage that many ordinary Europeans feel towards the film’s twin villains: migrant criminals and the European establishment (law enforcement, courts, politicians) that allow them to tyrannize innocent Europeans. The academic David Betz warns of civil war coming to Europe if those in power don’t do something serious about migration and the problems it causes. This movie shows you exactly what he means.
Why is it always “fascist” when we defend ourselves?
