“Citizen Vigilante”…. A Review

1.) “All behavior can be traced back to instincts.”

Citizen Vigilante
Opening Quote

a.) This is a materialistic view of man and so not true.

b.) All behavior can be traced back to what a man believes as that belief is poured over his ethnicity.

As a man thinketh in his heart so he is.

This opening quote really does set the table for the rest of the film.

2.) In a key scene in the film “Citizen Vigilante” the “hero” paraphrases a line from Nietzsche’s “Thus Spake Zarathrustra” favorably. The essence of the paraphrase is that once someone arrives on the Mountain of wisdom one realizes that all the morality and religion he has been taught is so much bunk. The idea implicit is that the individual makes his own truth. This is the motto of Nietzsche’s Ubermensch. The Nitzschean Ubermensch man is the man strong enough to embrace his own superiority over all lesser beings and then wields “the will to power.” Part of this embrace is the abandonment of all previously imposed (Christian) morals in order to gain a kind of self-realization where the strong do not allow the weak to have power or status over them.

Clearly, there is an appeal to that mindset right now in our culture given the fact that the weak and the lesser men are now being valued over their betters. However, the cure to that is not by abandoning Christianity. The cure is to give up the pietistic Christianity that gave Nietzsche’s philosophy a cash currency. The Nietzschean worldview communicated by “Citizen Vigilante” can only be overcome by a return to Biblical Christianity where Biblical law warns that a turning against the God the Bible and His Christ means that the alien and stranger rise higher than the homeborn. Only Biblical Christianity can defeat the worldview of both the Nietzscheans with their Ubermensch philosophy and the egalitarians with their desire to destroy the white Christian man so as to replace him with anti-Christ equatorials.

3.) One glaring irony in the film “Citizen Vigilante” is that the “hero” while praised for attacking the immigrant community, so as to bring justice to those whose crimes were left unpunished, visits a brothel where he chooses for himself a equatorial woman to be his companion.

The brothel scene only serves to reinforce the Nietzschean “will to power” theme in the film. The Nietzschean “hero” has no morals he has to be consistent with since there is no objective truth to which he must conform. As such, he can at one and the same time, hate the equatorials present in the culture and choose for himself an equatorial madame to use for his pleasure.

Alternately, this scene is in the film in order to communicate the domination of the “hero” over the alien and the stranger. The film maker goes out of his way to show that Sanders (film’s “hero”) bypasses all the white whores he could have chosen in favor of the equatorial he eventually does choose. He intends to dominate one who is dominating his people.

Warning — This bordello scene really adds nothing to the film. I’d strongly advise fast forwarding through this scene. The scene is completely gratuitous except to show the dark character of the hero. It is possible that I missed something in this scene because I took my own advice.

4.) In the “Citizen Vigilante” there is a recurring theme of the “Hero” bringing justice. This is an inconsistency in the film since the film has clearly embraced the Nietzschean theme of “will to power.” In a “Will to power” world there is no such thing as objective justice. What the “hero” is bringing then is not Justice but merely his subjective preference. In the Nietzschean worldview there is no such thing as justice. There is only preference.

Another interesting aspect of this film is the “hero” is always dressed in black. Perhaps the attire is supposed to reflect the black worldview of the protagonist?

Sanders, in this film, is also a bit of an obsessive compulsive as seen in meticulous grooming, business details, and cleanliness fetish (conveyed in the bordello scene). This is interesting because if one has ever known someone with a pronounced obsessive compulsive disorder it is just the kind of person you can imagine going on a vigilante rampage.

5.) The film focuses not only on the unwelcome vicious equatorials. There is also a focus on white magistrates who are not enforcing the law against equatorials or who are pursuing Sanders for his vigilantism. In point of fact there are many more whites killed in this film than there are equatorials. So, the theme in the film is not only that the West is being flooded by vicious equatorials, as communicated in the opening scene of the film. The theme of the film is also that white liberals magistrates need to be visited with vigilante justice. It’s hard to argue against either of these film’s themes. The film, with all its flaws, captures our current state of affairs where the once Christian White West is being flooded with violent equatorials bent on replacing the Christian white man all aided and abetted by our elite class. One feels less sympathy for the Magistrates that Sander’s murders then one does for the equatorials he murders.

6.) The film treats Sanders as a kind of saint. In the bar scene Sanders rescues two white women from two white men who have deceived their dates and who have put a mickey in their drinks in order to make their female dates pliable to their desires. Sander’s rescues the white women from the white men and does so without killing them.

7.) It wouldn’t take much to convince me that the film “Citizen Vigilante” was intended as a parody and satire in order to mock anti-immigration and anti-statist sentiment. The hero is so over the top that it strikes me that a case could be made that the film makers are mocking people who are anti-immigrant and anti-statist. I sure wouldn’t want Sanders representing my opposition to immigration and to corrupt Magistrates.

8.) The film “Citizen Vigilante” is in many respects a snuff film.

9.) It is interesting that the scene in the film “Citizen Vigilante” where the “hero” brings justice to the rape gang finds Sanders coming into a home of immigrants who are sitting around the table having a nice family meal. It all looks very domestic. Mom and Dad Mooselimb having a pleasant family meal with son and daughter Mooselimb.

Your sympathies here, initially, are intended to be with this immigrant family and against this cruel Citizen Vigilante. However, as the story unfolds about what the Mooselimb son did in the gang rape the initial sympathetic portrait of family Mooselimb begins to fade and is replaced with disgust as both the Mooselimb Father and his rapist Mooselimb son speak to Sanders trying to explain and justify the rape. This disgust is accentuated when you learn that daughter Mooselimb had been posting on her social media accounts how the raped girl deserved it since she dressed so provocatively. This scene ends with something like seven or eight executions.

10.) It is laughable that Citizen Vigilante, in this film, is doing all he is doing in order to protect “Democracy.” He complains a couple times in the film how the Magistrates are not protecting the “Democracy.” This is laughable because it is “Democracy” that has created the migration world we are living in. No anti-immigrant person wants to “save” Democracy.

11.) There is a “Javert” type character in the film from Interpol (Henry) who is constantly trying to track down Sanders. Like Javert he seems convinced that he is doing the right thing by protecting all the immigrants from the wrath of Sanders. The Javert character likes to talk about “the rule of law.” The filmgoers are forced to ask, which of the two characters, “Javert” or “Sanders” is really serving “the rule of law?” At one point in the film Henry tells a waitress he is pursuing Sanders so that society doesn’t collapse. This is a hilarious line given that without Sanders work, society is in freefall collapse.

12.) The film includes the popularity of Sanders over the news outlets and social media. Even if Sanders is brought to “justice” his message is beyond the reach of “the law.” Sanders has become a 21st century Robin Hood character and Inspector Henry’s “law” cannot triumph over Sanders.

12.) As bad as the film “Citizen Vigilante” is from both an artistic viewpoint and from a worldview viewpoint, it is interesting that it is getting the traction that it is getting. Clearly, there is a market for anti-immigrant, anti-statist films.

If indeed it is a anti-immigrant and anti-statist film.

“Citizen Vigilante” reminds us that when we let societal problems get out of control solutions that are offered are often a cure that is as bad as the problem. No one desires to live in this garbage can social order we have created with the mass immigration into the West of equatorials. Yet, neither do sane people desire the Nietzschean “will to power” solution that the film offers. Yet, this choice between “the devil and the deep blue sea” is often where a social order ends up when it doesn’t speak immediately and correctly to its social ills. We in the West have come to that place and it is unlikely we are going to find a way out of this death spiral that doesn’t have its own unseemliness about it.

One has to wonder if the popularity of this film will inspire Sanders types to arise and start playing the “Citizen Vigilante?”

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

3 thoughts on ““Citizen Vigilante”…. A Review”

  1. Forgive me if you addressed this in your analysis, but have you seen who the two producers are? Guess what: they aren’t Episcopalians.

  2. This is the kind of film that those Western nativists favor who are relying on mere “arm of flesh,” so to speak. Even though they have plenty of legitimate reasons to be angry, spiritual warfare is an unpleasant or incomprehensible concept to such non-born-again people, and they do not want to listen Martin Luther’s words:

    “Did we in our own strength confide,
    our striving would be losing”

    They are like such reprobate members of Old Testament Judaic kingdoms who were angry and desperate that heathen nations were tormenting them (partly as a punishment sent by the Lord), but did not want to properly repent and return to God’s covenant.

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