Dark Side of the Moon (2002)
A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.
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Sick Product of a Sick System
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
It is brilliant in one sense. But then, why bother. People like Kissinger or Rumsfield are the most evil, sinister, worse than the devil, nation building, murderous, imperialists. They were and are. Even though that sounds like some "socialist" student rant - should not be easily discounted even where the student may turn into an old man even more conservative than the media's most evil man, Rupert Murdoch.Evil is a bad word, sullied by biblical, fictitious illusions. I am sick of how, in this world, there are men who force an evil agenda, far worse than imagined in the bible, and they get off scot free, even celebrated - going where all the Bourgeois hang out (and make docos together), as if "everything is everything", and we are all friends and it's all a laugh. IF war were over, I wouldn't make this rant. In that case, forgiveness could start.Innocent people die, still, while war criminals are treated as heroes and make jokes about fooling everybody, or not. One obvious step further; the main reason those innocent people die is so that some other people pillage the resources to make sick jokes on very expensive film. And here some of them are, having fun at mocking the idea of a conspiracy.Hence I use words like the devil or evil, as understatements.WAKE UP WORLD. I have been saying this for a long time now. The biggest problem with conspiracy theories is that fact is already more shocking! Kissinger, Rumsfield, et al, are directly guilty for leading, sending men to kill many other men FOR A PARANOIA (WITH FAR LESS BASIS FOR IT) THAN YOUR AVERAGE CONSPIRACY THEORY/IST.And here is this Documentary maker, allowing them more fame and the arrogant position to mock. Kissinger didn't feel as though he had enough Vietnamese killed, so why not take part in a mockumentary that uses them as bit parts. They may be kidding, however, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea, Iraq, etc, etc, etc. the tens of millions murdered, are no joke.Certainly an interesting documentary, just as Hitler's men made some interesting experiments on people too.A very strange co-incidence for me, that I saw this so very soon after 'Exit Through The Gift Shop' - (apparently NOT a hoax, but I still dilly-dally on that). Said documentary or elaborate hoax is far more interesting and incomparably funnier. Jeez I hate Donald Rumsfield, with politicians like him you can bring back Stalin or Saddam any day.
The documentary is not about the discussion if the moon landing of Neil Armstrong and Buzz is fake. The've been there all right. However there is no actual evidence because of defect equipment. To avoid this setback in 'the race for space' the CIA have used Stanley Kubrick's studios in London to make a few moments of footage which was later on showed to the world as if they where original.This movie shows the world how emergency footage was already shot before the landing and used to impress the world. The information given by such people as Rumsfeld is to me unbelievable..Watch this for start to end, and don't judge based on a few minutes as sarastro... Du taget fejl min Ven, den her film er bare ved!
* * * CAUTION the following comment may or may not contain SPOILERS * * * Hahaha, never thought the man responsible for tens of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians (oops, collateral damage) could be so charming when being interviewed.It's amazing that such a busy man as Rumsfeld could find the time to cooperate in this documentary.Another person who seems so much more human after viewing this product, is of course Henry Kissinger.Then there's some more big wigs who graciously gave their full support to this humorist documentary. Among them: Buzz Aldrin, Alexander Haig and Stanley Kubrick's widow.I never heard of this documentary maker before but he must be reallyreally famous: why else would all these powerful and famous people willingly give their sparse free time to make this product the thing it has become?
A splendid, intelligent and very funny manipulation of the audience (at least this single piece of audience. ;-] ) I will to mention the plot and just applaud the way the film messes with ones feelings. It reminds me of the excellent Belgian pseudo-documentary "C'est arrivé près de chez vous" (1992) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103905/ which also made the viewer doubt his or her own judgement.What bothers me about this form is that facts are mixed with fiction so that you are left without a clue about which pieces of information to believe. But I guess that's a major point of the project...By the way, what an impressive list of interview victims (Kissinger, Rumsfeld, Haig, Kubricks widow etc. How did the director get these people to cooperate? Are we talking about a subtle counter-hoax from the White House to cover up the original conspiration and make it impossible to put forward this original conspiration theory in the future? ;-) The conspiration continues ...