![]() ![]() It's a bunch of rich Christian influencers role-playing being oppressed, and failing spectacularly. The directors have no experience organizing, or resisting police repression, or dealing with a spying and sabotaging government. But that's the point: this movie is persecution porn by people who never had to face a smidge of actual persecution in their life. If that's genuinely the worst thing the directors can come up with, while a fear of police brutality is a daily reality for millions of real-life Germans, their countrymen, then they must be the most sheltered, privileged people on this planet. The worst thing the protagonist' sister mentions about the new world order is that she now feels mildly uncomfortable seeing the police. Being a Christian (no word about other religions, but I digress) is apparently classified as high treason and punishable by death, but there's no censorship, no visible repression, no dedicated teams to seek out and neutralize this so-called threat. All the Christians in this movie live their life in the open, in relative wealth, peace and comfort, and never even bother to hide their face, turn off phones and other possible tracking devices or use any kind of secrecy and/or common sense. Christianity is apparently illegal, yet information is freely available on Wikipedia. English is the world language, most likely because this movie was made for American Christians and learning a "scary" language like Russian or Chinese would be too much work. Instead, the protagonists are "oppressed" by the most benign, milquetoast, unthreatening government I've ever seen in media or real life. You'd think a movie about a totalitarian government repressing religion would feature references to reviled places like China, Soviet Russia or the DDR.
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