Audacity

"Audacity" is the latest project from Ray Comfort (aka "the banana man"). This time Comfort and his friends have raised their ambitions (after movies like "180", "Evolution vs God" and "Noah") and actually made a movie (although less than feature length) with a story and real actors (actors we've never heard about before and whose careers are probably dead after this film).

But, as usual in a Ray Comfort movie, the big hero is Ray Comfort playing himself. We get lots of footage of his trademark street interviews. This time the topic is homosexuality, and Comfort uses his brilliant intellect to convince his interviewees (all intelligent interviewees are, as always, left on the cutting room floor) that homosexuality is evil. Because the Bible says so. Meanwhile, we have the story of Peter and Diana. Peter is a Christian who knows homosexuality is evil. Diana doesn't agree but after seeing Ray Comfort's brilliant Youtube videos she will inevitably change her mind. The tag line of the film is "Love can't stay silent", and our protagonist, Peter, shows his Christian love by never missing a chance to preach to the gays or break up their relationships. Becauase as always in the Orwellian world of Ray Comfort's god, love is hate, hate is love. This film exists only to tell homosexuals they must change, to remind others they must never accept homosexuals for who they are but, in the name of "love", always remind them of how wretched and sinful they are, and (last but not least) to provide Ray Comfort with another ego boost. And I'm a sucker who was so curious about this movie I actually paid to see it before it's going to be released for free on Youtube.

It's kind of an interesting look into how little these particular Christian heterosupremacists think of people (you're pretty much a poor idiot who needs to be told how to think). Beyond that, it's really not worth watching.

Everything in it is a caricature of something or someone you've already seen before. A religious man portrays gay people and their allies as argumentative people who want to ignore everyone and sin, sin, SIN! Of course, the religious people are meek, polite, and just trying to help. None of them would ever step on your toes, let alone reflect realities like insulting or physically harming gay people, usurping the legal rights of gay people, and of course they would never use torture to change gay people. Not being gay is the only acceptable way to be, but those darn gays, they really like to be mean and persecute Christians who are just trying to help! Gay people just need a good Christian to butt-in and change them into heterosexuals!

Of course, in this make-believe propaganda, everyone gets on board with Christianity, because it's such a compelling message: Just don't be gay! Easy!

Most of the top star reviews are from Comfort's Facebook page, rallying supporters to tout the movie as the next best thing since gasoline. Do not be fooled, and find something better and less nausea inducing. Of course, if you happen to share the bigoted views of this trash production, you'll suck down this bucket of chum like it's bacon sundae night at Dairy Queen. Honestly, I had more fun watching Plan 9 from Outer Space, or even Psychos in Love. Those were terrible. I think I will use my copy to cause that awkward moment that makes unwelcome guests finally leave. Maybe Banana Man will have better luck with his next dumpster-dive into the film industry. Probably not.

I'd like to say this is typical Ray Dumfart tripe but it's worse than that even. I don't know where Banana Man found worse actors than Kirk Cameron but I guess God works in mysterious ways, huh. The "plot" is nothing but an excuse to proselytize his religious bigotry towards homosexuals, with some self-grandiosing & publicity for his YouTube videos thrown in. The one positive thing I can say for this pathetic excuse for a "movie" is that it's only 1 hour long & not 90 mins (although if you can actually make it to the end in one go without throwing random objects at your screen you're doing better than me. If you're familiar at all with Ray then you know exactly what to expect, & if you're not, do yourself a favour & keep it that way by avoiding this piece of excrement.

It's actually shocking how terrible this "movie" is. It's almost funny but then you realize it's serious and he really does think being gay is a choice and all you gays should just stop gaying around already. Complete disregard for science, self-righteous proselytizing by Ray Comfort, and pure ignorant hatefulness that put a knot in my stomach more than once. I could talk about the terrible writing, the weird (possibly overdubbed?) interviews, and the kindergarten plot, but I really just can't get past how distasteful, factually inaccurate, and insulting the anti-gay rhetoric is.

TL;DR - Do you hate gays? You'll love this movie! Do you hate bigotry? You might want to skip this movie.