Product Details

• Actors: George W. Bush, James Kirk, Martin Luther King
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Mantic Eye
• DVD Release Date: January 15, 2005
• Run Time: 103 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001YJA2E
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #84,876 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Rhizomes.net, Fall 2004, Dion Dennis PhD.
"USA the Movie" is emotionally intense, intellectually intriguing and profoundly disturbing, in surprising and unconventional ways.

Product Description
Product Description: Everything that is seen or heard on the screen is intentionally crafted to evoke a feeling, sensation or tone. The clarity of certain visuals and the crispness of certain sounds are deliberately contrasted with blurred images or pops, crackles, hisses and barely audible sounds. The structure is non-linear and cyclical. Motifs recur as time runs both clockwise and counterclockwise. Expectations regarding "plot" and character" are broken signaling a non-traditional use of film to tell a story that is both contemporary and as old as humanity.

Excerpts from: Between Nomadology, the War Machine and the State: A Deleuzian Analysis of the Film, USA The Movie Dion Dennis, Ph.D

USA The Movie eschews temporality and discursive linearity in favor of time, place and identity bending. Filmed between 9/11 and the beginning of the Iraqi invasion, it’s a unique film, rhizomic in its structure, nomadic in its movement. As a document that is part contemporary history, part biography, part morality play, and part allegory, USA The Movie is arguably a significant exploration of "the American" as Deleuzian nomad, and the relationship between American nomadism, capitalism and the global war machine… To view clips please visit usathemovie.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Made for a Different Kind of Memorial Day, June 29, 2006

By	Carl The Hammer (Bryson City, NC) - See all my reviews

I hosted a viewing party for USA The Movie on Memorial Day because I thought it would be a good thing for my friends to watch instead of just eating barbeque ribs. There was plenty of beer (the good stuff) which might not have been such a good idea because 7 of my guests totally were blown away in a good way by this movie but two of my guests got so pissed off they practically tore me a new one with the kabob skewers. I loved it (not the skewers!) because there should be some heavy duty feelings stirred up about this war and war in general. There is no middle ground anymore these days and my "lefty" friends (and me) are sick of being dominated by the "right" who are rapidly being exposed for how wrong they are.
My pissed off buddies especially objected to the heavy truths in the statistics at the end of the movie which lay out some basic facts about the state of the world and the state of America these days. One of them started screaming "Prove it! Prove it!" and they were shouted down by the response "Open your ******* eyes. You'll see the proof!" A great time was had by all. We'll be doing it again on July 4th!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They Told You So, June 28, 2006

By	Ginny "eatsbooksforlunch" (Orcas Island, WA) - See all my reviews

Hundreds of thousands dead, thousands of American soldiers killed or wounded, the world sees us as a bigger threat to Peace than Iran, the country is quickly going broke, the Constitution in tatters, voting rights are being questioned, reporters are threatened with jail. USA the Movie told us so. Way back, right after 9/11, The filmmakers took off in a RV filming a man named James Kirk, a self-absorbed 1960's type as he interacted with the lay of the land pre-war. That's the ground floor of this film but so much more is built up from that.

USA the Movie, definitely NOT a documentary but still real, is filled with voices that accompany everything you watch: just like a chorus of angels and demons which must inhabit the head of schizoprenics or mystics. They tell us what has been before, and most disturbingly--what will be in the future. These are strong voices taken from real history or caught from the time that the movie was filmed--which has now turned into history.

The voices command, plead, scream, argue, contradict, warn. One says that "first they went after Russia, Then it will be terrorism, then they'll go after China and then it will be extra-terrestrials -- all to keep feeding billions of dollars to war profits..."
Protesters shout to "Rise Up", a calm voice explains how our corporations make us hated abroad," a smirking. Cheney-like survivalist tells us that we'll be glad to oblige the enemy with mass death , just like we did to the Japanese", Amy Goodman reads a list of statistics derived from the very first days of the invasion of Baghdad, which now seems almost nostalgic, given what was to follow over the coming years. Martin Luther King speaks the greatest words of warning: "We are heading down a dead end road that will lead to national disaster". He begs us, from his grave, to put aside our arrogance because otherwise God wil "rise up and break the backbone of our power". The whole film is more like a perfect example of the creative ravings of a human mind torn to bits by everything it has seen and heard and by what it senses will come. But I have to say, maybe the reason I love this film so much is because now that everything it was warning about has happened (which is a little freaky, if you think about it), it makes me feel like I'm not crazy to feel like I do. I watch it and think "That's right, the world is insane, it's not just me." Don't you think that is kind of comforting these days?

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truthful, April 14, 2005

By	Samia Sees (Delaware) - See all my reviews

I almost cut my wrists with this DVD. I was so angry at the world when I finished watching. I smoked a whole pack by the end. This thing isn't about America, it's about the world. It would have been "England The Movie" a hundred years ago or "Rome the Movie" a thousand years ago. It might be "China The Movie" fifty years from now.

And who are these people smugly pretending they know it all, splattering their pseudo-intellectual crap and slamming this film and claiming it has nothing to do with what is happening in this world? Is there war? Is there devastation? Go back to watching Britney's belly get ripe with her commercialized offspring. This isn't sci-fi and yes, it is a terrible piece of entertainment but a perfect piece of truth.