- Max Kennedy is a Minuteman, an American vigilante who patrols the border with Mexico, hunting down illegal immigrants. Max battles the contradiction of his sympathy for the Mexicans, who he feels are destroying his country.
- The film tells the tale of Max Kennedy, a Minuteman, modern day outlaw and ant-establishment dissident, whose life is tracked over a period of one year. It captures his gritty life on the vast, unforgiving U.S-Mexico Border and follows him through to his departure and return to civilization. Woven into the main narrative and serving as a backdrop, are scores of colorful and fascinating characters on both sides of the divide, literally and metaphorically, whose individual stories cast a penetrating light on the U.S-Mexico border issue, human trafficking, first-world poverty and right wing hate politics.—Anonymous
- Overview : Max Kennedy and the American Dream.
The film tells the tale of Max Kennedy, a Minuteman, modern day outlaw and ant-establishment dissident, whose life is tracked over a period of one year. It captures his gritty life on the vast, unforgiving U.S-Mexico Border and follows him through to his departure and return to civilization.
We witness his initial seduction by the temptations of big city life and eventual disillusionment with the same. We are also present when personal tragedy hits and we witness his breakdown, epiphany and eventual homecoming.
This is a surreal exploration of the fractured and often contradictory psyche of a self-proclaimed revolutionary and rabid iconoclast, who simply refuses to fit into preconceived slots assigned to him by the mainstream media, academia or the political dichotomy of Liberal and Conservative.
Woven into the main narrative and serving as a backdrop, are scores of colorful and fascinating characters on both sides of the divide, literally and metaphorically, whose individual stories cast a penetrating light on the U.S-Mexico border issue, human trafficking, first-world poverty and right wing hate politics.
It puts a radically new slant on the concept of the 'American Dream' as seen through the eyes of those who fight from it's trenches. The well worn bromides of Right and Left are held up to a merciless eye. Through the POV of Max and fellow victims on the other side of the Border, many prevailing myths and popular stereotypes are shattered.
The camera has gone into places and interacted with people hitherto unknown to the public eye. It has become a best friend and confidant to a person who has never known any... and in the process captured some truly revealing, poignant and also ugly moments It is a deep, probing and intimate study of an individual who the filmmaker believes contains all that is ugly, xenophobic, hateful about the human condition, but yet strangely transcendental and liberating as well.
Ultimately an undefinable contradiction that is emblematic to and holds the key to unlocking the post-modern, pre-apocalyptic human dilemma.
BACKGROUND : THE MINUTEMAN PROJECT is an activist organization started in April 2005 by a group of private individuals in the United States to monitor the United StatesMexico border's flow of illegal immigrants. Co-founded by Jim Gilchrist, the name derives from the Minutemen, militiamen who fought in the American Revolution. The Minuteman Project describes itself as "a citizens' Neighborhood Watch on our border". From its inception to present day, the movement has been the subject of much controversy, media attention and debate.
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By what name was Max Kennedy and the American Dream (2011) officially released in Canada in English?
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