Despite every reason why I shouldn’t, I have been anxiously awaiting
the day that I can finally discuss this film in my usual rambling fashion. Over
the last several months, I’ve been looking at release dates and interest groups
involving this film and anti-vaxxing in general, just waiting for when the film
would be released here in Australia. I mean, if God’s Not Dead 2 not only get a
cinematic release but a distressingly wide release at that, surely something
like this warrants similar treatment. Alas, due to the phenomenally terrible
press it’s gotten, it seems that there are some things that even we won’t screen… well, for an extended
amount of time. After some digging, I found that the film has been screened all
of once as part of the Castlemaine
CLIFF film festival. Since I’ve reviewed films here before with only one local screening to their name, and any release no matter how small meets my ad-hoc
requirements for a review, it has now fallen under my purview. This may be the
only time that I seek out a film purely for discussion purposes, as the whole
anti-vaxxer movement has become quite toxic of late, so hopefully this will
clear the air a bit.
