Review of Red State (2011) by Renan S — 28 Sep 2012

"Red State" literally translated into Portuguese means red state. In Brazil might not mean much, but in the United States are so called states in which the majority of voters is the conservative party, the Republicans.

Even a conservative party must accept that, over the years, policies, laws and rights should be changed, however, the preacher Abin Cooper (Michael Parks) is an "ultraconservative" and does not believe in any way that changes are possible. This man and his "fight" against homosexuality (which for many is against the word of God) are the center of the film, which takes place in Kansas.

Initially we follow three friends who make an appointment with a woman behind the typical teenage sex, fornication, but perjury not? The three end up being deceived and end up in the hands of Abin, in your church, Five Points. From that moment we begin to know the crazy preacher and his faithful followers.

At the moment its main preacher is watching for a photograph in Contra Plongée that with the excellent performance of Michael Parks, shows how crazy this man can be. So too is his penultimate scene in praising and thanking the arrival of the apocalypse and the end of all sinners, is good also the scene of her last singing.

Among these parts still have many events. We see a bit of the madness of these ultraconservative, often with a shaky camera, sometimes doing a great hit and sometimes a little sinning, hurting the enjoyment of the film. However the picture and really helps to set the pace of the film.

The film suffers from some predictability and, in my opinion, with the introduction of a bad character which is essential for completion of the film, and his lack of charisma prevents cling to character whose decisions define the way the other characters.

These decisions show how the U.S. government changed after 2001. Show how any form of "terrorism" is not tolerated and is punished in the way most pleasing to the country, killing an American religious belief is a terrorist and yes, the rights do not matter, because a terrorist is giving up rights. As the Agent Keenan (John Goodman) says: "People do strange things when they think they are entitled. But things are even stranger based only on a belief. ".