Conspiracy hits the Big Screen again

Conspiracy Film Rewrites Sept. 11.

Just when you think the film industry will allow some of history to reach audiences quite respectfully through United 93 .

(which i've seen and think IS worth paying to see), in studentville USA, Christian Pecaut, 25, a Stanford graduate is busy successfully promoting a 9/11 conspiracy film at the University of California.

A film that says, among other things, that the Pentagon was hit by a cruise missile fired by the military as an excuse to go to war.

The curiously named 'Loose Change' is "catchy, hip," with an "upbeat soundtrack." (Of course. They are students after all).

Oh and guess what. Its being exported outside the US where small theatres are already willing to take it on and show it. It’s playing in Soho for example. Actually, that’s not really a small theatre. That is likely to be an achingly hip underground type theatre, the type Soho is famous for, which will mean fair few students and Guardian readers rock up to see it. I could find out where and start throwing rotten veg (you know you could rely on me to turn up with a placard 'I see Dumb People/Moonbats') - except id have to pay to see it.

"This is our generation's Vietnam, our generation's Kennedy assassination," says the very ‘simple’ and ‘deviant’, Korey Rowe, 23, the film's producer.

"It's been breaking like nobody's business the last two months," says Taub, 36, who is sponsoring a showing Tuesday night in Oakland. "It's all over the place."

“The film appears especially popular among young people immersed in a Web culture brimming with sites that question the credibility of government. They see 9/11 as the defining moment of their lives.”

And so they should. Its just a shame they have chosen to pursue such a warped and unnecessary context to view it in.

Aaron Williams, a senior at Texas A&M University and president of the philosophy club, actually believes the film.

"Government is corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely," he says. Clearly unaware that the same applies to the film.

I think Ill agree with Clifton Bryant at the Virginia Tech University. People believe in conspiracy theories because the truth "is either too simple or too remote," The sociologist has made a study of "deviant logic" and behaviour. "We're always ready to believe something about which we know nothing," he says. Yep.

Anyway. With crap like this, Michael Moore's offerings and many others, the US exports its own all too special brand of rabid anti Americanism extremely well, all on its own. Nothing portrays American culture and belief in itself as well as film.

It’s a pity such a piece of crap like this is allowed to do the rounds, alongside United 93, even if it is ‘underground’. Underground will reach a core student audience here. All we need.