A review of Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed, as posted on Amazon UK.
This is a truly terrifying movie that exposes one of the most evil thought experiments ever perpetrated against human beings by other human beings. Nothing could have prepared me for what I learned over the course of this movie; nothing. I went in believing one thing, and came out with my opinions irrevocably altered. I sincerely caution potential viewers to consider what it is they are about to watch before they do it.
Expelled is the story of one man's voyage of discovery into a heart of darkness. Ben Stein may be vaguely familiar to British viewers as the boring economics teacher from the movie 'Ferris Buller's Day Off'. He was that one that said the hysterical line, 'Anyone, anyone, Buller, anyone?'
In the States, Stein is also well known as a political pundit, particularly on the subject of economics. In this movie, viewers follow Stein as he is systematically stripped of his ability to use his brain by a sinister cabal intent on using fear tactics - essentially mental terrorism - to manipulate societal change.
The film shows Stein being fooled into believing stories of academics claiming provably untrue persecution on the grounds of their religious faith. Although it is obviously upsetting for the viewer to see Stein being suckered into falling for these easily investigated lies without checking the facts, it is nothing compared to what comes next.
By the end of the movie, Stein seems to me to have suffered Stockholm Syndrome and actually identifies with his persecutors. Completely incapable of logical thought, we even see him implying Charles Darwin's descriptive Theory of Natural Selection - a scientific theory backed by reams of independently verifiable data - somehow leads to the Nazi holocaust against the Jews, a tragedy that is patently obviously not natural in the slightest.
I feel this film is deeply unethical and repugnant and would not recommend it to anyone. I just hope that poor Mr Stein recovers from his ordeal.
This is a truly terrifying movie that exposes one of the most evil thought experiments ever perpetrated against human beings by other human beings. Nothing could have prepared me for what I learned over the course of this movie; nothing. I went in believing one thing, and came out with my opinions irrevocably altered. I sincerely caution potential viewers to consider what it is they are about to watch before they do it.
Expelled is the story of one man's voyage of discovery into a heart of darkness. Ben Stein may be vaguely familiar to British viewers as the boring economics teacher from the movie 'Ferris Buller's Day Off'. He was that one that said the hysterical line, 'Anyone, anyone, Buller, anyone?'
In the States, Stein is also well known as a political pundit, particularly on the subject of economics. In this movie, viewers follow Stein as he is systematically stripped of his ability to use his brain by a sinister cabal intent on using fear tactics - essentially mental terrorism - to manipulate societal change.
The film shows Stein being fooled into believing stories of academics claiming provably untrue persecution on the grounds of their religious faith. Although it is obviously upsetting for the viewer to see Stein being suckered into falling for these easily investigated lies without checking the facts, it is nothing compared to what comes next.
By the end of the movie, Stein seems to me to have suffered Stockholm Syndrome and actually identifies with his persecutors. Completely incapable of logical thought, we even see him implying Charles Darwin's descriptive Theory of Natural Selection - a scientific theory backed by reams of independently verifiable data - somehow leads to the Nazi holocaust against the Jews, a tragedy that is patently obviously not natural in the slightest.
I feel this film is deeply unethical and repugnant and would not recommend it to anyone. I just hope that poor Mr Stein recovers from his ordeal.
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