September Dawn: anti-mormon tracts on celluloid

Movie critics are giving September Dawn, the mountain meadow's massacre movie that paints an ugly picture of fanatical Mormon leadership, dismal reviews. The snippets are well worth breezing through. Roger Ebert's review was particularly interesting and well worth reading. He does a phenomenal job deploring religious fanaticism that justifies murder in any case while also pointing out the thoughtless and exploitative motives of the film makers. His comparison of September with 1950 World War II movies unfair depiction of Japanese and Germans was right on.

Also worth looking at is an op/ed piece in the USA today that calls out Hollywood for addressing terrorism by, despite ample evidence of contemporary and unabashed strands of Islamic fundamentalism, traveling back to the 1800's to disparage Mormonism. The reasoning is obvious enough: Mormonism is an easy target as it rarely sees the friendly side of political correctness' double standards. Fortunately, many in the community of film critics have provided a pleasant contrast to such skewed standards.