Zeitgeist (2007) (V)

User Rating:

8.6/10   

Director:

Peter Joseph

Writer:

Peter Joseph (writer)

Genre:

Documentary | History | War

Tagline:

Divide & Conquer is the Motto

Plot:

Documentary about a) the origin of christian faith b) how american banks have seized worldpower at the beginning of the 20th century c) how these 2 items are related to the wars fought in the 20th and 21st century.

Plot Keywords:

Religion | 911 | Pagan | Economy | Federal Reserve Bank

Cast

Osama Bin Laden	...	(archive footage)
George W. Bush	...	(archive footage)
George Carlin	...	Himself (voice) (archive sound)
Tim Galloway	...	(voice) (archive sound)
Adolf Hitler	...	(archive footage)
David Icke	...	(voice) (archive sound)
Lyndon Larouche	...	(voice) (archive sound)
Jordan Maxwell	...	(voice) (archive sound)
Chogyam Trungpa	...	(voice) (archive sound) (as Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche)

Also Known As:

Zeitgeist: The Movie (USA) (promotional title)

Runtime:

118 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour (original version) | Colour

Company:

GMP

Goofs:

Factual errors: In the first part of the movie you will listen many times the narrator to use the word Sun as a similarity for Son (Jesus - The Son of God). Sun (and son) is an English word. This is just a word game that is irrelevant and fictional. The proof to that is that during that period the English language was not used, but only Greek and ancient Egyptian was spoken. In Greek word for Sun is "Ilios" and Son is "Yios".

Quotes:

[first lines]
Chogyam Trungpa: "Spirituality" is a particular term which actually means: a dealing with intuition...

Movie Connections:

Features George Carlin: You Are All Diseased (1999) (TV)

Where are the Citations?

You can call me a cynic, but I need citations or some other proof of the "facts" presented in this "documentary. In the first 20 minutes a single citation is listed and then it only lists a person (G. Massey) and a job description (Egyptologist). From this the documentary appears either amateurish, or worse, deceptive.

The film uses shocking images, quick edits, and an authoritative voice to persuade the audience. It is meant to influence the viewer affectively, not engage them intellectually. Facts that would counteract the argument are simply ignored, no attempt at balance is even given.

Just one example, the film asks you to believe that crucifixion is the shared death of "sun/son" gods. This is categorically not the case. The film mentions Dionysus as such a typical deity, yet his death in Orphism was that of being cut to pieces and eaten by the Titans. Attis, another example, in Greek mythology died as a result of being gored in the thigh by a boar. Horus in Egyptian mythology died as the result of a scorpion sting.

So check for yourselves, all you have to do is google some facts, heck the first two can be found in wikipedia under "orphism" and "Attis", the last one is found near the bottom of this page:http://www.touregypt.net/HORUS.HTM Simply put, it is lying to you.