Once every few years a film will come along that feels as
though it was made just for you. If you’ve seen God Bless America then I hope that you enjoyed it but I must tell
you now, this film was made exclusively for me. Seriously, writer/director
Bobcat Goldthwait must have snuck into my room one night with some sort of
brain scanner and lifted the idea from this movie from my head. I’ve had
numerous conversations with my girlfriend about the wonders of living in a
world where you could just choose people who annoy or anger you to stop
existing. I wouldn’t like to ever kill someone but it would be lovely if there
was some switch that when flicked could just transport all of the mean, cruel,
talentless, waster dickheads to some far away island where they could live out
their lives without being of bother to the people whose lives they make a
misery.
God Bless America takes
some of my darkest thoughts, blows them up and adds some violence and a
coherent story to make a fantastic satire of modern Western Civilisation. Frank
Murdoch (Joel Murray) is a middle aged man who is annoyed by his neighbours and
sickened by the putridness of society. After losing his job and being diagnosed
with a brain tumour he decides enough is enough and travels to Virginia where
he kills an obnoxious teenage girl who was the ‘star’ of a particularly blood
pressure raising episode of My Super
Sweet 16. A classmate of the girl called Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr) sees the
murder and persuades Frank to take her on a killing spree, shooting those who
spread hatred and fear and people who are repellent, abhorrent or
disrespectful.
