NEW YORK – Filmmaker Joel Gilbert released Tuesday his documentary “There’s No Place Like Utopia” on DVD and digital formats, including iTunes, Amazon Instant Video and video on demand.
The video on demand format will be available in 120 million homes under the “Documentary” category through most regional cable networks, including Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Charter, Rogers, Cox, AT&T, Cablevision, Time Warner Cable and Dish Network.
Gilbert gave the WND Superstore the right to sell the DVD of “There’s No Place Like Utopia” six weeks ahead of other outlets.
As WND reported, Gilbert has styled his film to take viewers along on a journey of discovery across America, emulating the work of leftist filmmaker Michael Moore, who has produced the highest-grossing documentary film in history.
Gilbert told WND the title is a play on the conclusion Dorothy reaches in the classic movie “Wizard of Oz.”
“Dorothy blindly follows the yellow brick road, believing a magical wizard will fulfill her dreams,” Gilbert explained.
“There’s No Place Like Utopia” is available now at the WND Superstore
“In the end, the Wizard is a charlatan, a mere carnival hawker. He sends Dorothy to the witch’s castle where she is taken prisoner in the dungeon. Throughout history, millions of people believed charlatans like Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro and others who promised utopia, but instead delivered hell on earth – the gulag, economic devastation, starvation and mass murder.”
In his journey, Gilbert confronts progressives in Detroit, Newark, Washington, D.C., Denver, Miami and Los Angeles. He delves into their political fantasy of paradise on earth, investigating:
- Why amnesty for illegals is bad for the black community;
- Why the Democratic Party wants Americans dependent on government;
- How Islam is expanding into Detroit and other cities devastated by progressive policies;
- Why Peggy Joseph, the 2008 voter who said Obama would “pay for her mortgage,” does not support him today;
- How political correctness is silencing American free speech;
- The roots of the progressive agenda for utopia on earth;
- Why Chicago and Newark are becoming the new Detroits;
- Why Barack Obama is the real-life Wizard of Oz – a charlatan full of empty promises;
- and the “vast left-wing conspiracy” in America today.
Keying off Dorothy’s conclusion in the “Wizard of Oz,” that there’s no place like home, Gilbert analyzes the literal meaning of “utopia” to argue, “There’s no place like utopia.”
“The idea of utopia, paradise on earth, goes back to Plato’s Republic, to Thomas More and to Karl Marx’s ‘workers paradise,” Gilbert said. “However, it’s just a fantasy; it can never exist on earth. It’s fiction. Despite this, socialists, who now call themselves ‘progressives,’ believe utopia is a realistic model for the modern nation state. Tragically, progressives worldwide killed 100 million people in the 20th century under the guise of recreating human beings to fit into utopia.”
See the movie trailer:
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Featured in the film are commentaries from WND senior staff reporter Jerome R. Corsi, WND columnist Jack Cashill, conservative author David Horowitz and former KGB officer Konstantin Preobrazhensky.
“The fundamental lesson of the ‘Wizard of Oz’ is that there is no wizard,” Gilbert stressed.
“Barack Obama has made promise after promise that have all turned out to be empty. The people I met who supported him were living in dungeons in the witch’s castle – everything had changed for the worse all over America.”
WND asked Gilbert what he learned about America from his journey making the film.
“I discovered that America is still a strong traditional society,” he said.
“From east to west, even in Detroit and the slums of Chicago’s South Side, Americans want a traditional and wholesome life, and are willing to work hard for it. They are not interested in government handouts, nor in smoking marijuana, nor in giving amnesty to illegals, nor any part of the progressive agenda.”
Gilbert’s “There’s No Place Like Utopia” made its theatrical debut in Denver to sellout crowds July 18.
The documentary was the highest-grossing film per screen in America for the weekend of July 18-20.
The Motion Picture Association of America, MPAA, gave “Utopia” a rating of PG-13, signifying parents are strongly cautioned that some content is not appropriate to children under 13, due to “some disturbing images.”
“I think PG-13 is an appropriate rating,” Gilbert said.
“Instead of describing the film as humorous and horrifying, the MPAA could just have said progressivism and the images progressivism has generated in America are disturbing.”
