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"Thy Kingdom Come...Thy Will Be Done" (1988)
Director Antony James's solemn face confronts a pious yet pitiful collection of mostly poor southern followers of fundamentalist religion. Their stories of abuse and addiction lead to the rich televangelist excreta who the movie profiles as they lick their chops. Most disturbing are James's adventures into the parallel universe of Jim and Tammy Bakker, manufactured "communities" where residents can spend (lose) even more money buying religiously altered books of fairy tales and live in giant malls. The bogus House for Disabled Children that houses only one brainwashed 18 year old with no limbs is like a David Lynch nightmare that is, unfortunately, more real and painful than all the televangelist teardrops shed. Divided into two parts, more 1986 "Murder, She Wrote" fashions follow (massive shoulder pads, fake pearls, sweaters and permanents on the women, puffy, parted-in-the-middle bowl cuts and moustaches on the men) as here the movie focuses on one Dallas, Texas megachurch (empire) run by a smiling, racist despot W. A. Criswell. The massive property and its crusade against "secular humanists who support communism" is led by billionaires who openly ignore the bible's apostles and believe Jesus endorsed the wealthy class as being the only Born Agains worthy of Heaven. This means Mother Theresa isn't invited-as well as the "brown Mexicans" and hobos who show up in the empire's single soup kitchen-church. The movie comes alive in a few interviews. Both Criswell's, who appears as a pompous Coen Brothers character, and a fired theology expert on the New Testament who breaks down exactly how much of the bible is ignored in all the teachings at the First Baptist Church. A tea party with Texas billionaire's wives, complete with a musical performance, is so horrifying, most viewers will require a dose of GG Allin or at least AC/DC as an antidote.
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