Review of God Grew Tired of Us (2006) by D M — 03 Sep 2009

The film started with the typical story parroted over and over again in Western media that these people's plight is due to a ?genocide against Blacks? or alternately as an ?Islamic holy-war? against Christians.

This film does not challenge those assertions, though there is much more to the situation. In fact, the group who started this whole mess is working to get Israeli influence in the country. Israel has long been using these southern Sudanese rebel fighters to keep the Islamic north busy in order to exploit the region (and to harvest some organs?).

But, I guess that wasn't really the focus of the film. The film followed the victims in this internationally created mess, namely the Lost Boys. It showed them living in deplorable conditions in a refugee camp and then followed a few of them when they gained residency in the United States.

Both heart-wrenching and funny at times, the culture shock they went through (think Gods Must be Crazy) was amazing to watch. One of the biggest problems one seemed to have is the manner in which Christmas is celebrated in the United States - "What does all this (referring to Christmas trees, lights, Santa Claus, etc) have to do with accepting the birth of Jesus Christ's spirit into your heart?" While there were some very sad aspects of their journey, I do not think the United States has any business inviting these unskilled people over here.

Seriously, besides nutso Christians and bleeding-heart liberal humanists, who thinks it a good idea to invite a drastically different culture into the middle of a town - when that drastically different culture has to be taught not to throw trash out their windows or various other niceties which separate those who create the environment from which they originated and their new "home.

" I was glad to see that they wanted to keep their cultural traditions and fought to keep their youth from slipping into the glorified style of the American Black. They recognized if they were going to survive, they had to unify together, despite being placed in 23 different states.

Any group who wishes to protect its identity, its heritage, must do the same or will be lost to the corporate-generated degenerate pop-culture of the time.