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The Ambassador
It's hard to say if I was thrilled or disturbed by Mads Brugger's documentary, The Ambassador. I can say that I loved it! Throughout the movie, I couldn't wait to see what would happen next: would he get caught? Would he expose the extreme corruption and save the day? Well, neither of those things happened. Somehow, he carried on his charade and apparently continues to do so.
So much of this film was disturbing to me. Because it is so intriguing to wonder what's going to happen in this setup, the viewer could easily forget that this is a documentary. People really are pillaging an incredibly impoverished area that is rich in natural resources. The government wretchedly operates to inflate the individuals in power and ignores those who they should be serving. Brugger's statement as he begin his expedition that he can "operate beyond all moral boundaries" turned my stomach. Again, recognizing that people can and do function in this manner.
In terms of documentary, one might congratulate Brugger that he does not seem to create an angle. Instead, he presents what is happening and the rest is up to us. This film coming on the heels of my class last quarter on Globalization, the Poor and Mission (MD500 - Myers) strikes a painful chord. What are we as Christians to do? What can we do? Praying and waiting for the Lord to make it right just seems so incredibly inadequate.
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The Ambassador is subversive and incendiary documentary film in which the maker Brugger unveils himself as an unscrupulous forger with the sole intention to purposely damage the interest of individuals and governments for his own glory to sell his product. The film is produced with public money from the Danish Filminstitute and financed/produced with a budget of €1 million by Lars Von Trier (Zentropa), a controversial film-director who admitted to journalists in Cannes in 2011 to being a Nazi, understanding Hitler. Organizers were not amused and declared him a persona no grata to the same festival. Under influence/inspiration of Von Trier’s ideology, Danish journalist Brugger purposefully took several steps beyond the rules, both written and unwritten. It is clearly a documentary film based on fascistic roots. Take a look at a photo in Politiken
http://politiken.dk/kultur/ECE907085/mads-brgger-dansk-journalistik-er-meget-kedelig/
and see how Brugger presents himself like a neo Nazi on horseback. That explains why he hates Africans and ridicules the TWA pygmy people. Brugger used hidden cameras and false pretences to record and film confidential meetings and telephone conversations without informing his victims or asking them permission or approval by means of adversarial response. Then he edited a documentary film with a specific “Tunnel Vision” to transform a fantasy-fetish into reality to proof his mistrust under the slogan “The end justifies the means!”.
Supportive evidence at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-raC_rhOGQ
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lars-von-trier-admits-being-189747
http://splitsider.com/2011/12/klovn-your-enthusiasm-the-many-layers-of-discomfort-in-danish-humor
http://bruggertheambassador.blogspot.com/ explains why THE AMBASSADOR is not a documentary nor a mockumentary but a f*ckumentary