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5.0 out of 5 starsA Five-Star Film, Despite its flaws
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2007
Whenever I see anything by Alex Jones, I can't help but think of a story I heard years ago that supposedly happened in New Guinea. Seems that when the first medical missionaries went into the highlands, the tribes were deeply suspicious of them, and doubted that their medicine was any good. When the missionaries finally discovered the reason why, they were astonished.
Apparently villages in the New Guinea highlands were (and still are today) heavily infested with fleas that bite pigs, dogs and humans alike. The New Guinea tribesmen, who were natural skilled observers, were quite familiar with the habits of these fleas and knew that every healthy human and animal would have no small number of them. They also noted correctly that whenever anyone got sick, the fleas immediately fled them for another host. However, these tribesmen weren't quite so good at drawing accurate conclusions from their observations. At some point they decided that since only healthy animals and people had fleas, the fleas must be the cause of their good health. Everyone should have them! The missionaries didn't, so...
So it is with Jones. Every time I see one his films (and End Game is, in every sense, his best film to date) I am amazed and fascinated at the impressive body of facts he gathers together. The Bilderberg group does, in fact, exist and meets in extreme secrecy precisely as described in the film. His description of how Rothchilds' crashed and then bought up the British economy for pennies on the dollar is historical fact. It is no secret that certain banks and other financial institutions have funded both sides of nearly every major war in the 20th century, and the U.S. has a long history of arming both sides of national and regional conflicts. The Georgia Guidestones and their peculiar origins are real...Google Earth will take you right to them. The 1974 Kissinger report which mentions the need for depopulation exists (I've read it in its entirety). Jones' background research for this film is easily confirmed at any local library and generally impeccable.
Alex Jones is far less credible, however, when he attempts to weave all of these facts into a broad "master plan for world domination." Many of his conclusions seem to stand cause and effect on their heads, while others seem to reflect a strong personal, and likely religious bias. For example, Jones and his supporters dismiss all of the crises we face in the coming century - fossil fuel depletion, climate change, global warming, declining supplies of food and fresh water world-wide - as nothing but hoaxes concocted by the global elite as the premise for bringing about their plans for world domination, despite the existence massive volumes of evidence that would suggest exactly the opposite. He has a special contempt for environmentalists of any stripe, universally condemning them as a vital part of the global elites' plan. This is ironic, considering that many environmentalists, peak oilers, human rights activists etc. sound the same warnings of economic chaos, rising police states world-wide, and population collapse Jones himself does, howbeit for somewhat different reasons. While I have not read much about Jones' personal religious views, what he says in much of his work is very much in harmony with Christian Fundamentalist groups in my part of the country, which would provide a clear explanation for this.
Jones is also well-known for highly selective use of quotations by well-known figures to support his theories, while ignoring many other things they also said. For example it is completely true that Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell, and H.G. Wells, (among many others) were staunch supporters of eugenics - in its early days. What wasn't mentioned,however, was that every one of them totally renounced that support as they came to realize the terrible acts and policies eugenics could be used to justify. Aldous Huxley, for example, wrote Brave New World in the 30's as a cautionary tale - a warning of the terrible things that could happen if the theories of eugenics, organic evolution etc were taken to certain logical extremes. Bertrand Russell fiercely denounced Hitler and the Nazi movement from its very beginnings, and his name appeared prominently at the top of a Gestapo list of people to be executed immediately when the Nazis succeeded in taking Britain.
A final, major annoyance in this film is the disproportionate amount of time devoted to Jones ranting on a bullhorn at the Bilderberg delegates in Ottawa. Most of his taunts,such as "we're not your slaves," and "the answer to 1984 is 1776" are downright pathetic, and help brand Jones as a 'paranoid whack job.' Small wonder the Bilderbergs and other global elites are content to completely ignore him.
Despite these criticisms, I recommend End Game as a five-star film. Here's why.
If End Game weren't presented as a documentary, I would still recommend it as the best Science Fiction film I had seen in many years. I mean no disrespect when I say this. Science fiction (not the Sci-fi Channel crap, the real thing) in its highest form is better called speculative fiction...it asks the question 'what if...?' and then produces a story that attempts to answer it. Even as fiction End Game is a chilling and provocative story. Science fiction, after all, doesn't describe something that is actually happening, but rather something that theoretically/reasonably could happen.
So, what if?
What if a small group of people actually did want to dominate the world? What if they had learned the lessons of history and understood that no single nation or political entity could ever accomplish it. How would they pull it off?
Suppose this international group, bound not by nationality or ethnic affiliation but rather by a common world-view, realized that the way to world domination lay in taking total control of the world's financial infrastructure - its central banks, stock markets, and lending institutions, rather than by military conquest. And what if, for the first time in human history, the technology existed to actually carry out their plans...to shape public opinion, to form corporations richer and more influential than most of the world's governments, and to control the policies of the rest through foreign aid, trade and debt? What if...?
What if...?
...despite the limitations and blatant silliness in many parts of End Game, Alex Jones turns out to be even partially right (and I believe he is)? After all, just because you're a paranoid whack-job doesn't mean someone isn't out to get you.
And fleas, no matter what conclusions you draw about them, do bite.