Film: "Alex's War"

[Hegel Schmegel]

Film Title: Alex's War

Director: Alex Lee Moyer

Released: 2022

 

We can be thankful that Alex Jones left college at the age of 20, opting instead for the path that he did, in choosing to enter community access TV over a bland conventional career. Early photographs of him as a young twenty-something show a sinewy stud fit for, say, the NFL, or the stage of an exotic dancer. Jones could have easily chosen a different path in life, what with the buff bod he then had, but the guy was simply too brainy to let a mind like his go to waste.

 

A few of the more harsher critics of Alex Jones enjoy portraying him as one possessing neither gray matter nor a spiritual nature, when in fact both of these perceptions are inaccurate. In Alex's War, we listen as Alex tells of his early years growing up in Dallas, Texas, and being an avid reader who preferred encyclopedias as a kid as opposed to the comic books that other boys his age were into. (This bit of autobiography is also related in the chapters Jones contributed for the book, Censored: How The West Became Soviet Russia, published in 2019.)

 

Here in this timely documentary film, we get to see an entirely different side of Jones other than the one we are accustomed to seeing, as the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes of "Infowars" to show us a three-dimensional human being with both a lovely heart and a God-fearing soul. Critics of Jones, aside from their efforts in trying to make him out to be the equivalent of a mentally vacuous class clown or court jester, also get off portraying him as just some tough-skinned stocky bloke who if clad in a one-piece bathing suit could pass for a WWF wrestler.

 

On the contrary: There are moments in Alex's War where Jones alludes to a spiritual war going on and which has him hoping for the day when his spirit is taken and he returns to God. Cue the ignorant guffaw of the cynical Alex Jones haters, some of whom say that all of Alex's ranting on about satanic elites is just superficial and sensationalistic talk, that he really doesn't believe it or if he does that he was introduced to it only in recent years by contemporary conspiracy theorists. Once more, we find this not to be the case.

 

Alex Jones, in fact, is most sincere when he speaks of God and Satanism and I would invite those who doubt this to listen to some of the interviews he's given in the past outside of his "Infowars" secular persona. (As just one example, among others I could give, of Jones showing a softer and spiritual side of himself, is the extended interview he gave some years ago on the podcast "Future Quake," hosted by a Christian who went/goes by the moniker of 'Dr. Future.')

 

Personally, what I've always admired about Alex Jones is that he recognizes the bigger picture of what is going on and doesn't get caught up in partisan politics. His allegiance is not to any (owned and controlled) political party but to the Constitution and to the Bill of Rights of his beloved country. (Amen, brother.) Albeit, I'm not sure what good the Second Amendment will do in the age of A.I. that is to come, but that's an entirely other discussion.

 

Movie buffs may recall the scene from director Richard Linklater's 2001 film, Waking Life, that has an animated version of Alex Jones driving around downtown, attempting to raise public awareness by means of a passionate harangue and the aid of a portable PA system. Here in this, it's as if Jones has come full circle, as again we see him cruising the streets, loudspeaker in tow, echoing the town criers of old.

 

Yes, we find scenes in Alex's War that show the human subject engaged in peaceful protests but there are some more intimate moments as well, that has Alex opening up and admitting to his imperfect nature as a human being, and commenting on the flak he's received in recent years, which no doubt has caused him great emotional distress.

 

Who among us has not made mistakes or unintentionally harmed the feelings of others? Furthermore, are the people who look up to the scientific priest class for answers and guidance to stop believing in science, for the many errors it has made along the way, as in its designing of truly destructive things like nuclear bombs, and fields such as medical science that has arguably done as much damage to human lives than good, whether due to trial-and-error, misdiagnosis, malpractice, or outright corruption? Are those who look up to a priest or priest class for answers and guidance to stop believing in God should it be revealed to them of the clergyman's sins and fallibility?

 

In my opinion, Alex Jones has not only received a bum rap but has gotten it far, far more right than he has wrong, contrary to what the viciously judgmental and merciless faultfinders of his have to say, who single him out for his being imperfect and who make him out to be no more reliable an information source than a broken clock.

 

Some of the best moments in Alex's War has the unintimidated, persevering superhero (really just a man who loves his steaks and potatahs) speaking of the time he sneaked into Bohemian Grove to video-record one of the secret 'gentleman's club' more stranger rituals. We also tag along with Alex as he travels to the (presently defunct) Georgia Guidestones, where there he lets off a bit of steam (or rather stream) as part of a most apropos anti-tribute.

 

Edited November 19, 2023 by Hegel Schmegel