What this documentary is really about is Mr. Carroll's inability to reconcile his religious upbringing and his relationship with his father. JC uses a hodge podge assortment of undergraduate level diatribes against established religion to fight the dinner-table arguments he is still having with his late dad.
The thinness that JC's personnel demons are disguised is so apparent that half-way through the film, after yet another reference to and photograph of JC's father you want to yell "Get over it!. There really is no relationship between the Air Force Academy's infiltration by evangelicals and our country's napalm bombing of Vietnam almost 40 years ago. Rather, JC simply must find a way to display his present anger along side his youthful rage. That Catholicism is guilty of countless atrocities is old news but must be redredged since JC has managed to secure some mundane interviews concerning tired topics. That the Holocaust will have to be exploited is a given : The question is not if the Auschwitz gates will appear but when.
JC considers himself nothing if not provocative. Without question this rebel nature first became apparent when squaring off against old Joe. Playing the angry young man continued to pay off by making JC a celebrity priest and, when the calling proved too confining, now pays the bills and provides trips to Colorado Springs, Italy, etc. JC has the skills of an ordinary journalist and its interesting to learn of many things in this movie. But taken as a whole, this film is just a resume that son uses against father to fight the proverbial Oedipal battle.
The thinness that JC's personnel demons are disguised is so apparent that half-way through the film, after yet another reference to and photograph of JC's father you want to yell "Get over it!. There really is no relationship between the Air Force Academy's infiltration by evangelicals and our country's napalm bombing of Vietnam almost 40 years ago. Rather, JC simply must find a way to display his present anger along side his youthful rage. That Catholicism is guilty of countless atrocities is old news but must be redredged since JC has managed to secure some mundane interviews concerning tired topics. That the Holocaust will have to be exploited is a given : The question is not if the Auschwitz gates will appear but when.
JC considers himself nothing if not provocative. Without question this rebel nature first became apparent when squaring off against old Joe. Playing the angry young man continued to pay off by making JC a celebrity priest and, when the calling proved too confining, now pays the bills and provides trips to Colorado Springs, Italy, etc. JC has the skills of an ordinary journalist and its interesting to learn of many things in this movie. But taken as a whole, this film is just a resume that son uses against father to fight the proverbial Oedipal battle.