StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
studerdw
After thinking about this film for a while, I am convinced it is indeed propaganda. I do not know how it was supported or produced or by whom, but the end result is to associate things that are true (and we must address) with things that are normally associated with acknowledged conspiracy theories that appeal to a small group of people but mainstream media successfully ridicules. The effect is to impugn very legitimate and clear concerns and solutions by associating them with outlandish unlikely fantasies. If intentional is is scurrilous. If not it is grossly irresponsible.A brief visit of the website associated with this film reveals an agenda of climate change denial while the film actually advocates sustainable energy. This contradiction cannot be ignored . . . It is clearly understandable why many of those interviewed decided to write a letter publicly disassociating themselves with the final product . . .
Shawn
Here is a blog post from one of the people (John Robbins - Published in Yesmagazine.org) interviewed in this movie. Please allow the post to shed clarity on this horrible movie:-------------------------Thrive is the name of a controversial film that asks, and attempts to answer, some of the deepest questions about the nature of the human condition and what is thwarting our chances to prosper. Lavishly funded, it features appealing imagery, beautiful music, and interviews with many leading progressives, including myself. Yet ten of us have signed a statement formally disassociating ourselves from the film.In my case, the decision was especially difficult because there are aspects of Thrive I find inspiring, and its makers, Foster and Kimberly Gamble, are old friends. Why have Amy Goodman, Deepak Chopra, Paul Hawken, Edgar Mitchell, Vandana Shiva, John Perkins, Elisabet Sahtouris, Duane Elgin and Adam Trombly, as well as yours truly, gone to the trouble of signing our names to this public statement? The statement reads as follows:"We are a group of people who were interviewed for and appear in the movie Thrive, and who hereby publicly disassociate ourselves from the film.""Thrive is a very different film from what we were led to expect when we agreed to be interviewed. We are dismayed that we were not given a chance to know its content until the time of its public release. We are equally dismayed that our participation is being used to give credibility to ideas and agendas that we see as dangerously misguided."-------------------------It has been painful for me to witness personal friends of mine become caught up in seeing global warming as a lie, and just about everything on earth as part of a vast demonic conspiracy. When I wrote Foster Gamble to voice my disappointment with many of the ideas in the film and website, he wrote back, encouraging me to study the works of David Icke, Eustace Mullins, Stanley Monteith and G. Edward Griffin.Who are these people, in whose worldviews Thrive has its roots?David Icke, who is featured prominently in Thrive, is well-known for advocating utterly bizarre theories, and claims that the entire world is run by a secret group of reptilian humanoids who drink human blood and conduct satanic rituals. In a recent interview, Icke seemed to be competing for lunatic of the year. "What I'm explaining now," he said, "is that the moon is not a heavenly body but a construct."One of the signers of the statement of disassociation from Thrive, former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, has grounds to disagree. As the lunar module pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the moon's surface. Buoyed by lush visual effects and lovely words, the Thrive film has been attractive to many who know how often we are deceived and exploited by the powers that shouldn't be.The rest of Thrive's primary sources aren't much better. The late Eustace Mullins was the author of a book titled Hitler, An Appreciation. Stanley Monteith, who happens to be a neighbor of mine, has long been involved with Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, and professes that the environmental movement is a pretext for the effort to create a global police state. He and G. Edward Griffin have long been members and officers of the John Birch Society, a far-right political organization that first came to public attention when one of its founders, Robert W. Welch, proclaimed that Dwight Eisenhower wasn't the genial war hero and popular president he seemed, but rather "a conscious, dedicated agent of the international communist conspiracy." Welch co-founded the John Birch Society along with Fred Koch, the father of today's notorious Koch brothers.-------------------------Read the full post by searching "yesmagazine disaster by design" in Google.
free spriit
I remain sceptical about some parts of this movie, the parts concerning crop circles and aliens. However I do believe very strongly that everything laid out when he 'follows the money' is totally factually true and it matches my own research. Food, health, energy, education and above all the monopoly over money creation all controlled ultimately by the same small group of individuals who own the central banks. Their only mistake so far has been in letting the internet remain free.The New World Order is a very real threat and humanity is in danger of sleepwalking into war and then a global dictatorship. We are being set up in a trap. This is not a conspiracy theory this is realOther reviews point out that this documentary uses propaganda techniques. This is not unusual in such a type of film. I imagine it would be almost impossible to find a single documentary anywhere ever made which does not. Don't let this stop you watching it.There is a corner of my own mind which remains sceptical over the real intentions of the man behind this movie. But at face value it does seem that all he wants is for our species to THRIVE.I recommend spreading this film like a virus.
