The Helipad 7/23/21 - Movie Review: 'Hoaxed'
For the first ever Helipad review, The Chairman gives you his thoughts on the 2019 documentary 'Hoaxed'
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Hoaxed
Mike Cernovich, Scooter Downey, and Jon Du Toit
True Legend Films, CernoFilms, Random Media
Score: 9/10
Watch the movie here.
The DVD version can be found here.
In his phenomenal 2019 book, The New Right author Michael Malice defines the red pill as “Namely, demonstrating to someone that what is presented as fact by the corporate press and entertainment industries is only (at best) a shadow of what is real, that this supposed reality is in fact a carefully constructed narrative intentionally designed to keep some very unpleasant people in power and to keep everyone else tame and submissive” (Malice 94). And that is what Hoaxed is. Yes, it is a documentary, but Hoaxed is also very much a red pill, pulling back the curtain and exposing the corporate press’s agenda and how they impose it on the American people and even the rest of the world.
Hoaxed delves into the different examples of how the media’s narratives have been shows to be completely false and have consequences that ranges from merely fueling the cultural war to actually leading to massive loss of life. The documentary goes into how the media pushed the “very fine people” hoax during the early months of the Trump presidency as well as how Cassie Jaye’s movie, The Red Pill caused her life to be turned upside down just for wanting have it be shown in theaters.
But believe it or not, Hoaxed also shows much severe examples of the corporate press’s malfeasance and how it didn’t just start during the Trump era. The film touches upon how the Walter Durante and the New York Times lied about the Holodomor and Soviet Russia in the 1930s, what the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird is and how it was implemented during the Cold War era and beyond, and even how the US was manipulated into waging the first war in Iraq.
But while Hoaxed is jam-packed with information, what is just about as notable about the film is how beautiful it is visually. It’s clear that every background behind each interviewee was meticulously thought out and shot. Mike Cernovich sits in this empty room with a roof filled with white lights. It may sound boring when you read about it, but when you see it on the screen, the background and lighting provide so much depth that it comes off as quite a powerful image. You also see a (then) lesser known Dr. Jordan Peterson surrounded by a dimly lit, empty theatre. So visually, the film experiments with contrasting settings for each subject and it works really well. Only this kind of experimentation could take place in a film that was independently made. Hollywood is way too scared to try anything as artistic as this these days.
What is also interesting about Hoaxed is that it is a bit of time capsule that shows fairly famous contemporary commentators during a time where they were still not banned from social media or totally cancelled and still making their way to prominence on the dissident right. The film features Tim Pool, Lauren Southern, Scott Adams, Luke Rudkowski, James O’Keefe, and many more. The filmmakers were also brave enough to speak to those who have since been unpersoned on social media like Alex Jones and Gavin McInnes. But I really need to make it clear that the film does its best to interview people on the left wing as well. There’s a very profound part of the movie where they interview Black Lives Matter activist Hawk Newsome where he lays out his positions and his world view. Fair enough. At one point though, the filmmakers ask him to take look at a recent news story and well… I won’t spoil it for you, but it is one of the more amazing and profound parts of the documentary.
Once again, I won’t be spoiling the film for you, but it is worth mentioning how Hoaxed concludes. The film ends not in an angry fashion, but rather it ends on a metaphorical note, with probably one of the most beautiful settings and backgrounds the filmmakers could have chosen. That’s all I’ll give away.
Like I said before Hoaxed is a time capsule, but it isn’t just a time capsule with respect to where the interviewees were in their careers. The film is a snapshot of how the media (the entire The Cathedral, really) was wielding its power and creating a culture of distrust and in many cases absolute mayhem in the US and all over the world. Hoaxed is very much a history lesson that you will not get in school or college, and yet it is also a wake up call to the blue-pilled. But to those who are already red-pilled, this film is a blueprint of how the corporate press truly works, contrary to what Reliable Sources host and far-left propagandist Brian “Soybean” Stelter tells you.
Instead of mindlessly scrolling through Netflix tonight, watch Hoaxed if you haven’t already.