Bomb City

"Bomb City" is a movie about the death of Brian Deneke , a student at the high school I'd attended in Amarillo a few years earlier. On the recommendation of a couple of friends, I rented this movie to see 1) if it looked anything like the Amarillo I remember, and 2) to see if they got the story right. I honestly expected neither, but was pleasantly surprised to find the filmmakers had done a very good job of both. Most of it was filmed on location, and it presented the unjust brutality in a pretty "fair and balanced" way - unlike most of today's TV/movie/news anti-American propaganda.

And speaking of propaganda...

What really galls me is how almost every review pushes the dogmatic liberal narrative that conservatism is somehow to blame for the death.

• Wikipedia: "and raised accusations about the social tolerance of the Texan city"
• IMDb: "the cultural aversion of a group of punk rockers in a conservative Texas town. Their ongoing battle... leads to a controversial hate crime that questions the morality of American justice."
• Hollywood Reporter: "But in hyperconservative Amarillo..."
• Forbes: "and promptly became a national symbol of the intolerance suffered by those who dress differently than the norm in conservative towns like Amarillo."
• Apple: " Their radical appearances stir social intolerance within the community... one of the most controversial hate crimes in modern American culture"
• Austin Chronicle: "Oprah, Dateline, 20/20, Texas Monthly, pretty much all of the big news shows... painted Amarillo as the town without pity."

I'll bet you ten grand that NONE of those sources would dare characterize the hotbeds of gang lawlessness like Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, Baltimore, and others as "dysfunctional leftist cities" - which they most definitely are. Between abortion, euthanasia, drug abuse, sexual perversion, rioting, and atheism, modern socialist/communist liberalism has undeniably established itself as an amoral death cult.

To be fair, I totally agree that the people involved in the murder of Brian Deneke should have been held responsible, and that money and privilege (plus Texas' idiotic football fanaticism) caused a massive miscarriage of justice. But continuing that line of thought, Stanley Marsh (indirectly portrayed quite positively in the film) used his own money and privilege to escape punishment for his imprisonment, sexual misconduct, and harassment of teens. Hmm, maybe someone should make a movie about that. (See also the Clinton-Soros corruption machine)

But again, and despite the necessary profanity and violence, ignore the external spin and see this movie.

http://www.bombcityfilm.com/