The Helipad 8/20/21 - Movie Review: 'Antifa: Rise Of The Black Flags'
The Chairman shares his thoughts on the documentary 'Antifa: Rise Of The Black Flags'
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Antifa: Rise Of The Black Flags
(David Lugo, Steve O’Rourke, Jack Posobiec, Raheem Kassam, David Reaboi, Jon Du Toit)
Citizen Journalism Network
Score: 8/10
Watch the movie here.
Buy The Antifa: Stories From Inside The Black Bloc by Jack Posobiec here.
I first became aware of Antifa or “black bloc” ten years ago or so when I watched footage of protests/riots in Europe on the news. It really wasn’t until 2015 or 2016 when then candidate Trump was running for the presidency when I was fully aware of them. Then it all got very real in 2017 when I watched Tim Pool’s and other independent journalists’ livestream footage of what some call The Battle of Berkeley. So much surprised me while watching that footage in real time. Antifa and other “protesters” shut down (absolute queen) Ann Coutler’s speech at UC Berkeley and rioted and held the city hostage all while the city’s leaders and police stood down and let it happen. And the corporate press played defense for them. It was wild.
Since then a lot of questions and accusations have been raised about Antifa. Is it really just an idea? How organized are they? What are their beliefs? What are their goals? Who is funding them? Why aren’t the cops really doing anything about their rioting? The list goes on and on. The film Antifa: Rise Of The Black Flags goes about trying to answer these and other questions — quite successfully.
Some of the best journalists and researchers in game like Jack Posobiec, Raheem Kassam, Libby Emmons, David Reaboi, and Lee Smith take you on a journey and expose the viewer to the current iteration of Antifa’s Communist roots that go all the way back to pre-Nazi Germany and how Stalin played a roll in supporting them. The film also exposes how current Antifa uses a lot of the same techniques the Mao Zedong’s Red Army used during the 1949 Chinese Communist revolution.
Since Antifa: Rise Of The Black Flags was released in the later part of 2020, the film also documents what Antifa has been responsible for during that summer and during a lot of the Trump years like destroying American monuments and statues, committing violence against opposing protesters and regular civilians, massive destruction of private property, and so on. Interviewees like Lee Smith do a great job in connecting Antifa to being funded by NGO’s, how the corporate press ignores them or even cheers them on and why (looking at you Brian “Soybean” Stelter, Vice, Vox, etc.), and how university professors get involved with them, too.
The most notable parts of the documentary are when we get an insider’s view into Antifa. That comes when Gabriel Nadales tells of his time as a member and the story of how he joined and later left. The other notable part of the film is when brothers Jack and Kevin Posobiec discuss and show first hand footage of their multi-day undercover journey into Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Portland, Oregon during the summer of 2020.
The documentary does end on a bit of somber and ominous note leaving the viewer to wonder, “Okay, this is really bad, but what are the solutions?” It’s clearly a warning to wake people up, but it would have been a good addition if there were some ideas put forward about what to do about this problem. Were there any tactics used against Antifa in the past that worked? Or do we as a society just agree to stand up for ourselves? But what does that look like in practice?
Antifa: Rise Of The Black Flags is definitely one of the best resources for understanding Antifa. Clocking in at just about one hour, the movie gives the viewer a ton of information while providing a ton of amazing visuals to back up all of the interviewees’ claims. It’s shot well and weaves between footage and the interviewees seamlessly. It’s a “must watch” for any political junky or anyone who wants to truly understand what happened during the riots of 2020.