The whole documentary is worth watching. There's only so much Theroux I can take, and having to see the settlers up close wasn't too attractive a proposition but it's a decent show.
I don't actually understand how Louis Theroux can possibly work. This is both in the sense of him somehow consistently being able to remain stoic and unflapped in the face of some truly evil and deranged people across his documentaries (not only that, but maintain a resting "Uh-huh, I'm listening, go on" face), and also in the sense that I don't know how his subjects haven't cottoned on.
Do they lack google? Are they so cocky that they don't feel the need to even give a cursory bit of research to someone wanting to interview them? Or do they know who he is, but are filled with such a sense of moral rectitude that they are in the right that they can't conceive that they might actually be the bad guys and that, if they just explain their position, they'll be the heroes of the documentary?
No-one seems to get that him letting then proselytise is actually just giving them enough rope to hang themselves with.
Although, having praised his unflappability in the first paragraph, I understand he does lose his calm and call that woman sociopathic towards the end of the documentary, but I don't mind that as remaining completely stoic in the face of such enormity is not a virtue.
Puja
It's the bit in bold
I don't think he loses it with her, he's matter of fact about it
Puja wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 10:04 pmAlthough, having praised his unflappability in the first paragraph, I understand he does lose his calm and call that woman sociopathic towards the end of the documentary, but I don't mind that as remaining completely stoic in the face of such enormity is not a virtue.
He's always pushed back a little; but usually in a "of course, some people (not me, no, never me) would say that you're a fucking evil clown - there, I've helped you with the awkward bit of the noose-knot; would you care to wear it now?"
Then he may push back a little more in post, talking about being scared that he was busted or in physical danger (thinking especially of the nazis and the scientologists).
The whole documentary is worth watching. There's only so much Theroux I can take, and having to see the settlers up close wasn't too attractive a proposition but it's a decent show.
One little aside, not too far into the documentary we hear a rabbi saying that it's not just the occupied territories that belong to them, so does Lebanon.
Nice to know they'll have another project to move onto when the genocide is complete . . .along with taking increasingly large parts of Syria for 'security'.
Another great moment was when the machine-gun wearing former Texan settler says it's the Arabs who are genocidal. And you can see he believes it too.
