Dreams from My Real Father (2012)

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It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

***Spoilers Had Obama been a Republican, he'd have been swallowed in the primary process and spit out for eternity. His blatant lies about non-association with radical communists and/or criminals Davis, Ayers, Dohrn, Rev Wright, and Rezko would have been screamed from the highest mountains and echoed forever. The proof of these lies are so apparent for anyone who cares to look, but this film makes it easy for anyone who cares to know the truth.Also, anyone who has remotely studied Alinsky or just read Cliff's Notes for Rules for Radicals can see that Obama has check-boxed every aspect of attempting to turn our capitalist, democratic republic into a socialist cesspool; also well highlighted in this film. The damage to our country's businesses, citizens, and courts have been in many ways irreparably damaged by this conman who successfully sold lie after lie to the American people in a gross attempt to destroy our civil society through wealth redistribution, class warfare, race warfare, mass gov't regulation, and non-stop chaos. It's a shame this film has to show people in hindsight what could've easily been averted if our society hadn't been so ripe to seek easy answers from a socialist demagogue.

The so-called "documentary" is pure fiction and speculation. Joel Gilbert is a tool of the people who hire him to make this drivel--such as CPAC and the Hudson Institute. That at least is documented. If I were to speculate, I'd say the same money that went into finding an Egyptian Muslim with too many pseudonyms to count (Nakoula Basseley Nakoula being one, Sam Bacile another) paid for this undocumented documentary based on excerpts from Barack Obama's first book. Gilbert's previous work was shown with praise at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Conference in Washington D.C. and was a winning film at the Hudson Institute Film Festival in New York City. The Hudson Institute was founded by Herbert Kahn, son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, who worked with Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter to establish the Neoconservative group of crazies that controlled George W. Bush's warmongering administration.

It is unclear whether this amateurish effort is meant to offend the political left or right. The left will find it generally offensive, and "Birthers" on the right will be frustrated by the undermining of their narrative.A curious Director's Note precedes the film, acknowledging that the contents are "based on actual events," of "probable events," and "approximated conversations." http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/805/dreamsfrommyrealfatherx.jpg/The whole of the film is presented in "Mockumentary" style (as are Director Joel Gilbert's other efforts, "Elvis Found Alive" and, "Paul McCartney Really is Dead-") with the first-person narrative meant to be the "true" voice of President Obama. The voice-over makes no real effort to sound similar to Barak Obama's tone or speech patterns, but continually presents fabricated emotional observations and descriptions as autobiographical.The film is entertaining. Although the narrative is pedantic, predictable, and clumsy in it's stereotypes; Jazz music, nude photography, college education, foreigners and minorities are presented as communist threats to America; The Federal Government of the United States is (curiously at odds with modern Conservative thinking) a font of righteous American morals, including McCarthyism, the CIA, Hoover's FBI and anything vaguely military.The writer is unable to reconcile his (again, Joel Gilbert) attempt at presenting Barak Obama's inner-voice with his own political agenda. The snide asides about Affirmative Action and habitual labeling of "Commies" are packed in with open attempts to paint President Obama as a race hater and devious subversive.It can be hoped that reactionary personalities on both sides of the contemporary American political divide will view this film as either a baseless Mockumentary, sarcastically intended to show the ridiculous ease of exaggeration and misdirection, or as an inept and markedly vicious effort at inflaming an already discordant political environment.For myself; I've seen plenty of this kind of garbage from both the liberal and conservative spectrum. If you find this kind of flailing and dishonest manipulation entertaining (as I do), I recommend Michael Moore's films, Glen Beck's books, and any commercial effort that purports to share a shocking and hidden truth. Think for yourself!

Since I already knew much about Obama's background, I needed to know how a kid from Hawaii became a high ranking politician in Chicago. This DVD explains it all. I found nothing in it controversial, unless you want to claim the DVD itself is controversial, it is otherwise factual, well assembled and detailed. It could have been twice as long, but is long enough for those who aren't aware of Obama's background, much of which has been hidden by the mainstream media. That is also explained. I highly recommend this DVD for those still seeking answers. It is known that Franklin Marshall Davis was a member of CPUSA, that he was in Hawaii and a mentor to Obama. It is also known that Barack Obama Sr. spend very little time with his "child". Again, this DVD explains what happened and reveals much more about Obama's dysfunctional family, and why he prefers to be considered a "black" American and the source of his anger about America.