\u201cHow to Blow Up a Pipeline\u201d hit theaters this week, and there\u2019s no nuance in its title.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s approximately 100 R-rated minutes on destroying a Texas pipeline in the name of environmental activism, social justice, stickin\u2019 it to the Man, and other cool stuff.<\/p>\n
While heist stories always have been popular, there\u2019s long been the moral snag of getting audiences to root for the bad guys or at least the people seen breaking the law.<\/p>\n
Indeed, Hollywood once had the self-imposed Hays Code that, among other things, required criminals, no matter how intriguing their story, to always meet a bad ending, generally either through the legal system or in death, including by their own hand.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, storytellers have gotten around ethical qualms by having criminals<\/a> do things ultimately for some kind of perceived good, as in Robin Hood robbing the rich to give to the poor.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the way \u201cHow to Blow Up a Pipeline\u201d gets around the whole terrorism<\/a> thing. It hoists its would-be moral flag on protection of the environment.<\/p>\n Right.<\/p>\n Check out the trailer.<\/p>\n\n Since most movies are aimed at younger people, \u201cPipeline\u201d has a sleek, youthful cast single-minded in its quest for justice.<\/p>\n Of course, no one\u2019s going to be influenced by the movie\u2019s message<\/a>, especially young people. After all, it\u2019s merely a session of entertainment escapism enhanced by over-priced popcorn.<\/p>\n It\u2019s harmless.<\/p>\n It\u2019s just that I have a recollection of long-ago college days when a friend told me about watching a crime-glorifying movie, then leaving the small-town theater to engage in some random acts of vandalism.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s a different era; we\u2019re more sophisticated now. Lessons in developing explosives and in pipeline destruction would prompt no interest from young people. Nor authorities.<\/p>\n After all, the FBI is busy with monitoring parents upset with school boards and with words on the internet<\/a> such as \u201cred pill,\u201d or posted names like \u201cChad\u201d or \u201cStacey\u201d representing people popular with the opposite sex, unlike \u201cincels,\u201d the self-described involuntary celibates<\/a> the FBI also is concerned about.<\/p>\n Pipelines, schmipelines \u2013 who cares?<\/p>\n \u201cPipeline\u201d so far has an overwhelmingly positive 97 percent Tomatometer rating at the Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> movie review site. As of this writing, audience reviews numbered only about 50 but were at a very positive 78 percent (60 percent is considered good).<\/p>\n Perhaps the state of our culture can be gleaned from what top critics are saying about the film.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2019How to Blow Up a Pipeline\u2019 might not offer a blueprint for explosive solutions, but it could spark some ideas,\u201d wrote Lovia Gyarkye of the Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n \u201cEach member of this ratpack clan represents a distinct background ensures that what unites them is not allegiance to a singular political or spiritual ideology<\/a>, but rather the notion of a shared enemy: those willing to see the planet burn for a profit,\u201d said Carlos Aguilar of the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n \u201cYou won\u2019t be able to resist the siren song of this film as it breaks and molds you into an activist with a firm and riveting grip,\u201d wrote Lex Briscuso of Inverse.<\/p>\n Then there are some comments beneath the YouTube presentation of the movie\u2019s trailer:<\/p>\n \u201cI hope the film is effective in helping us move towards the clean energy transition as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFinally a film about radical environmental protest that pulls no punches.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis type of thrilling and encouraging information dissemination is ESSENTIAL in capturing the hearts and minds of our youth to help us win the war in Ukraine<\/a>, and for Mother Earth. Peace.\u201d<\/p>\n And so it goes. One more step in the destruction of a civilization.<\/p>\n Maybe a sequel to \u201cHow to Blow Up a Pipeline\u201d will focus on the electrical grid. Or on water systems.<\/p>\n This article appeared originally on The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Hollywood Now Is Romanticizing Far-Left Terrorism: Calls for Justified Attacks in New Film<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cHow to Blow Up a Pipeline\u201d hit theaters this week, and there\u2019s no nuance in its title. It\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n