Upon first viewing of this movie, you may automatically think Species rip-off. Even with the clearly lower budget it offers so much more and actually trys to be different from the average made for TV Sci-Fi weekly movie by combining a mixture of comedy, horror, and of course science fiction. The movie takes place on a college campus in Canada! Where we follow a group of students who have an American Pie type of vibe to them, by busting out jokes and repeatedly have discussions about losing their virginity and performing other sexual acts. And that's where the hot blonde sorority babes come in...and that's where the Species comparisons may come in.

Yes, just like the Species series, in order for this hot blonde undercover "ALIEN" race to survive they must reproduce with the male human virgin freshmen. We do get some actual time to meet the characters and their stereotypes, and you do get a feel for them. It's clear to see who the lead players are and even though you know who's gonna go, you still root for them like they have a chance, something you don't see too often.

The hot blondes in their natural form do resemble the Species creatures quite a bit, but I guess they go by the standard alien description, hairless body, big eyes, human but almost bug like. The awesome Kim Poirier actually plays one of them "Constance". She gets quite a bit of screen time while not actually being the lead, you might also recognize her from the Dawn of the Dead remake, she's got quite a memorable scene in that one! When we do see these reptilian aliens, sometimes it is real effects that do look fairly good. But for most of the action sequences the creatures are CGI but even though it's easy to tell, it still looks good since they move so fast.

This movie also mixes in a bit of cop drama with the good cop bad cop showdown, although unnecessary it still seems to work in the entire B-Movie atmosphere of the rest of the movie. So we follow our lead college male "Luke" played by Corey Sevier as he must prove to the others that Aliens do exist and they're taking over the campus before it's too late and his friends give in to sexual peer pressure.

The movie builds up quite nice to an inevitable showdown between the lead male and entire Alien species. We get some nice action sequences and with all the time spent actually getting to know the characters you don't know whether or not to root or boo for these aliens creatures.

In the end, you get the expected victory with an unexpected twist. The first time I watched this movie it somehow slipped past me, but it actually seems to work quite well. I'm not gonna spoil it for you just in case you haven't seen this but keep an eye out for it when you do! This is definitely a movie you can have fun with if you don't take it too seriously, think of The Faculty + Species and a Lil' bit of American Pie and you got a surprisingly enjoyable movie. Of course it finishes off with room for a sequel and of course a sequel was made, how could they not? If you get a chance give this one a watch, even though you may have seen this type of story before, it's more fun then you may think.

7.5/10


I was expecting a dire film but was shocked to see just how good the camera work, direction and soundtrack was. Some of the shots were exquisite. I know thats not what these films are supposed to be about but I will be looking out for more from these directors. The story was pretty so-so but the presentation and art was superb.

Not sure how a sequel will sit

Screamers the Hunt is out soon - I'll look out for that as it is by the same director I think.

Ten lines needed to post a comment - ah OK. All the cast looked great too.


Students at a Canadian college campus are beginning to disappear, only to be found dead, their bodies frozen stiff from the inside. Luke & Roger, two students at the campus, come across two new female students. But Luke discovers that they are in fact aliens who have arrived in order to breed so that they can save their race from extinction.

You can imagine what the executives at the Sci-Fi channel were thinking when the pitch for this film was given. "Hey, let's make a teenage version of SPECIES, set it in a college & throw in some American PIE." And sure enough, they delivered it.

"Decoys" is exactly what you would think it is; a cross between SPECIES & American PIE, only it takes the main plot points of both films; alien chicks & horny students; & throws them in a blender. The film's intentions are clear from the outset  the way the camera lingers on female college students as it passes them, shows that the film is purely for adolescent males who want to see sex, booze & cheap CGI effects.

That said, the film does have a number of glaring problems. The acting is not too bad, with Richard Burgi & Nicole Eggert playing their part as the two cops better than the actors playing the co-eds. The plot has some massive plot holes  why did the aliens pick that particular college to mate with? Also there's the fact that the director / screenwriter does not know who the real villains are (the aliens are shown as evil at first, but later come across as being sympathetic). The makeup effects used to portray the frozen victims are quite good but the CGI aliens are very cheesy.


Decoys is set on St. John's College campus in New Brunswick in Canada where Luke (Corey Sevier) & his roommate Roger (Elias Toufexis) are two students just trying to have a good time, while trying to return some loose change to blonde babes Lilly (Stefanie von Pfetten) & her roommate Constance (Kim Poirier) Luke witnesses something strange & terrifying, the two female roommates are in fact aliens. Obviously no-one believes Luke but when Bobby Johnson (Mark Trottier) is found dead under mysterious circumstances Luke is convinced the alien babes are behind it & since he is blamed for Bobby's murder after having a fight with him earlier in the evening Luke has even more reason to expose the alien menace on campus....

This Canadian production was co-written & directed by Matthew Hastings & the feeling I get from the other IMDb comments is that Decoys has divided opinion with some mixed reviews & as I write this the average 'User Rating' on the main page comes to an almost exactly half 4.4 out of 10. While I didn't think Decoys was the worst sci-fi horror film out there I wasn't that impressed with it & overall I would probably have to say I thought it was slightly below average. The biggest problem I had with Decoys is that it spends far, far too much time on boring teen drama issues & at times I thought I was watching Dawson's Creek (1998-2003) or something & the horror is kept to an absolute minimum with a few pinches of sci-fi thrown in there. The script isn't very good either, why would someone during a talent show turn up with a flamethrower, shoot a jet of flame at the crown & then just leave? How can someone enter a room with a flamethrower, use it to fry a couple of aliens & yet none of the curtains, carpet, wooden table, chairs or anything else not get so much as a singe? Why, if one of those aliens saw or even suspected she saw Luke hiding in her closet did she not do anything? After seeing someone in the closet she just leaves yet Luke must have seen her revealing herself as an alien which just makes zero sense to me if your an alien & are trying to stay incognito. Also why was one alien good & the other's bad? How did they get to Earth? How were they able to mimic humans perfectly? Are morgue's in Canada so lax that they allow any old teenager in to take a good look at his dead classmate? Do these very same morgue's leave autopsied bodies just lying around at night on any old table? Are these guy's so pathetic that when a total blonde babe goes down on them to suck their manhood they make silly faces & come up with excuses why the total blonde babe should stop. Right, I know I wouldn't. I also felt there just wasn't that much to the film, it's fairly slow, not that much happens, there's nothing in the way of mystery or surprises & there's a pointless twist ending that paves way for a sequel tacked onto the end. Those are just off the top of my head to, I could go on. I suppose if your looking for a dull teen drama with a few touches of sci-fi & horror then Decoys might be the film you have been waiting for, if not then there are much better alternatives out there that deserve your time & money more.

To be fair the film looks pretty nice with slick production values & better than average but still nothing brilliant CGI computer effects. There's not too many memorable scenes here, there's little horror & apart from a shattered frozen arm & a brief glimpse of a rotting dead body there's no gore whatsoever. Despite lots of opportunity there's not much nudity either, I think there's only one nude shot in the entire film despite several sex scenes which all end up being tamer than tame. The aliens when revealed are nothing special in themselves & look rather dark & drab & to save on the budget very humanoid in shape. AS I have already said the film spends too much time on dull teenage angst & dramatics rather than genuine chills of which there are virtually none. Even though Decoys might have a somewhat glossy look there's very little substance here below it.

According to the IMDb this had a budget of about $5,000,000 which amazes me, although the film does have a nice look about it & decent production values virtually nothing happens & I can't believe that amount of money was spent on this but having said that it's not impossible it cost that much. If it did then Decoys is even more of a disappointment when the amount of money the makers had to play with is taken into consideration. Filmed in Ottawa in Ontario in Canada. The acting is alright but nothing special from no-one I have ever heard of, some of the college girls are pretty hot though.

Decoys is a film that seems to have provoked a fairly mixed reception, some seem to like it while just as many don't. In my opinion I would say it's slightly below average & forgettable & there are better films out there. A sequel Decoys 2: Alien Seduction (2007) went straight-to-video & while I haven't seen it it's meant to be terrible.


Well, this sort of sneaked up on me.

There I was expecting a terrible little b-movie, but what I got was something cooler, odder.

I am a great fan of "The Faculty" and my husband, Terry and I have been David Decoteau movies off late, so maybe it was a relief not to have to wipe my brow over another homo erotic escapade.

The story is a familiar one, but it is told with some panache. The dead bodies are very coo and the dream sequences are great.

Terry and I really enjoyed it and I am excited that there is a sequel.

Bring it on!

Brian


This (cough cough) "movie" is almost semi-quasi-sorta-kinda watchable if you're not too terribly particular at the moment.

Or, at least, it had an interesting idea premise, but the execution was overly amateurish. The excessive stupidness of some of the college students got a bit annoying after a while. You'd think that if they knew that what they saw was just an illusion hiding a slimy, butt-ugly alien, they would discount the illusion and be cautious and wary. But no-o-o-o, the dummies could always be counted on to fall prey to the alien's come-hither routine.

Speaking of the aliens, how come they had breasts? If they're not mammals and don't feed their young with bodily secretions, how come they had boobies? The aliens were obviously fully sentient and therefore had crossed the threshold into personhood, how come they were using other people (the humans) as prey? It's sort of one of those universal no-nos that people will not use other people as prey. The aliens were very obviously total skanks, and i didn't feel sorry at all for them when they were killed.

The movie had an interesting concept of evil aliens running amok, but the concept got bogged down with clichés and too much airheadedness and cutesypoo-ness.

This "movie" could use a re-make, but done correctly this time. Dump out the smarminess and play it seriously, and it could be a real humdinger of a movie.


Decoys was a very weird film, in fact my first impression, before I read the back, was that it had something to do with monsters or aliens roaming a snow covered forest, kind of like a Windego themed movie, but I was wrong. This movie was okay, but it wasn't my favorite. The movie is essentially about these things that disguise themselves up to look like beautiful young college girls, who happen to have a taste for humans. This film is essentially a blend of American Pie and Alien, though there were some great camera-work for the attack scenes and there were some good performances, but this movie seemed as thought it was just another teen horror flick. There are also some pretty good comedic lines and situations too, however, for my taste it just wasn't there and it did not hit me right. Perhaps, I've drawn away from this brand of horror.

The cast is virtually unknown, however, among the bunch there are notably okay performances by Krista Morin, Marc Trottier and Ennis Esmer. I think that I can safely say that the girls who played the aliens did some of the best performances. Case in point, Stefanie von Pfetten, Kim Poirier, Meghan Ory and Corey Sevier who both did pretty great acting in this movie. However, some of the "diabolical" acting was a bit silly and not the great. However, some of the performances by the male heroes seemed a bit too determined into finding the truth than any teen that I have run into. They seem a bit scripted and movie-ish for my taste. Also, despite it being a necessity to the film, there was a bit too much sex and nudity for my taste.

The scares in this film were okay, I enjoyed the chest bursts and the spider-things, but they weren't scary, rather they were just plain weird and unexpected. They tried to be scary by having some "jump out" scares and "creature" scares, but they were unsuccessful. Though, the aftermath of which the victims' look like is disturbing in it's own sense. I can't remember that much from this movie so I regret that I cannot comment that much about the scares.

Overall, this movie had some great intentions and some okay scares but they overshot it by making it seem too scripted and adding unnecessary sex and nudity. The performances were okay but a bit too over the top and sometimes dramatic. I guess this movie is okay as a B-movie, but certainly not one that you would want to rush out and see or spend money to buy. I think that this movie would have a greater following mostly due to the fact that it is a cult classic, but not for my tastes. This movie would appeal to you if you do like B-movies and indie films as well as cult films, but if you are looking for something that will hit you hard or really scare you, keep on looking. I wasn't a huge fan of this film.


Genre-blending is a timeless art where regaining the interest of a jaded or exhausted audience is concerned. Unfortunately, it is also a tricky act to pull off thanks in no small part to the delicate balance between the two disparate elements. So while the blending of the sex comedy genre that has been bludgeoned to death in Hollywood with the monster mash genre that seems to have overridden science fiction looks good on paper, it requires a few things at the execution stage in order to work. The first, and definitely most important element to put in place is a clever script that blends the best of the prospective genres whilst shedding most of the worst. A good example would be Aliens, in which science fiction, horror, and action conjoin into a gripping story of human beings fighting their own worst natures. Once a good script is in place, good direction and good actors are really needed to follow. In fact, some attempts to blend genres that lack a good script can even be saved by a good director or a good cast.

The problem with Decoys, in a nutshell, is that it has absolutely none of these things. The director seems content to set his camera in front of his subjects and leave it running whilst they run through their lines. The actors, in turn, seem to be merely reciting lines and going through the motions. This, not unnaturally, leaves the audience standing on the outside of the film's reality rather than entering it. Of course, one could recover from this by making a film that is bad or oddball enough to be funny. This is not even attempted in Decoys. The concept of aliens landing on Earth with the mission of mating with the locals in order to facilitate some sort of continuation of their species is one rife for comedy. Granted, making a credible horror out of this concept is a difficult task, as Species proved in 1995, but the problem in Decoys is that nobody even seems to be trying. The film gives us little in the way of clues as to how to respond.

Furthering the problem is the cast. Meghan Ory steals the show as a potential girlfriend for Corey Sevier's protagonist, but when she is not in the frame, the weakness of the rest of the cast shines through like a desk lamp before the face. Nicole Eggert and Richard Burgi cannot act their way out of wet paper bags, and the latter's attempts to portray a hard-nosed detective who is convinced he is pursuing a new Ted Bundy shatter the reality of every scene he is in. Canada certainly has a better pool of talent available than this rot would have you believe. Every time one watches Bryan Singer's adaptations of the X-Men, one can see that much. The problem is that for every major talent in any sector of the industry, there has to be a dozen or so dregs. The cast of Decoys would appear to be a collection of every dreg that Canada has on offer. Sevier barely possesses the skill to appear in a menswear commercial, and aside from Ory, he is the best element of the cast. Thankfully, this problem was addressed somewhat in the sequel.

Another strike against Decoys would be the terrible writing. At one point, we are given a scene in which one of the aliens tells the human male she is about to attempt to mate with exactly why she and her fellow aliens are there. In the hands of a great director like Bryan Singer or Kenneth Johnson, this could have turned into a plot subthread that would hook the audience as the alien in question struggles with her own nature. Instead, we are simply given more scenes in which sex and death are equated, while a level of misogyny rarely seen outside of America is on display. Granted, a motive for the actions of the characters is provided, but a good motive is like a good engine. If you do not maintain it adequately throughout the time in which you are using it, it will begin to fall apart. Characters begin to follow the protagonist's plan of action without needing to be adequately convinced, motivations change at the drop of a hat, and twists commit the ultimate sin. They are telegraphed in advance whilst making no real sense in light of the rest of the film at all.

As I have hinted earlier, some of the problems with Decoys were corrected in Decoys 2. Aside from the addition of better cast members, better humour, and a more developed story, Decoys 2 also delivers a bit of mild suspense. Another problem in the original Decoys is that any suspense or interest is destroyed for storytelling convenience. The susceptibility of the alien race to heat above room temperature is probably the biggest problem that these characters suffer. While it is not as idiotic as making the aliens in Signs fatally vulnerable to water, it does beg a few questions. Granted, I am not familiar with Canada in any sense, but surely they must have days when one does not require an ice pick to breathe out. Even Norway has those from time to time. But by now, you might have noticed I am picking all sorts of myriad details apart regarding Decoys. And that is the biggest point I wish to make here. A good film has plot holes, but manages to distract the viewer from them. A bad film displays its plot holes and even exaggerates them by force of numbers. Decoys is therefore a very bad film.

I gave Decoys a four out of ten. Two of those points are for a touching scene in which Kim Poirier demonstrates a third dimension to her character, and Meghan Ory. The rest of the film is a damp squib.


Like other Canadian horror movies, this one too, is rather mild and benevolent and opposed to the recent wave of mean-spirited American productions. The story involves female aliens disguised as "hot" college girls looking to procreate. I use quotations marks because the supposedly super hot sorority chicks aren't particularly attractive. Some even look well past college age. With one exception: Kim Poirier who absolutely steals the show. What an adorable and sexy woman. She just sets the screen on fire. Why haven't we seen more of her, she can easily carry a movie and deserves more work. The movie has a soft look and there's quite a bit of focus on relationships and friendships, unlike ordinary horror flicks that are more like loosely connected gore segments. Overall the tone is refreshing and enjoyable. The script is standard with one exception, the surprise twist at the end, which I didn't expect at all, given that everything seemed standard. Movies like these should really be offered also in unrated editions, so there's more nudity and sexual situations, given the theme of this movie. I'm looking forward to seeing part II.


This attempt to mix two genres of American pie type and alien type does not mix well. And it seems this is due to lack of trying rather than difficulty of mixing. Such waste of time both for makers and viewers of the movie .The movie tries to follow clichés of both genres but the result is not convincing like the guy who stipends relieving of his virginity, and more unbelievable that is the caring and responsible alien type who think for a species that their survival is based on their distinction. Another unbelievable thing is the police that in camp with so much strange happenings does not suspect anything. These type of movies success is based on viewers suspension of disbelief. But unfortunately here this disbelief cannot be suspended. And this is because of lack of try on writers and director's side


For the kind of film and the budget available it was a decent movie. The acting was fairly good. I just think that more detail should have been given about some of the character's past like Lily and Constance and their home. What happened to it exactly? How are they able to mimic human behavior so naturally and change their physical form? What do they do to their mate exactly? Luke and his female officer friend seemed to have met before. When, and what happened to them? I felt that this was the biggest drawback of the entire film. Other than that it was great. Hopefully in the sequel all these unanswered questions will be explained. If at all possible I hope to see some of the original cast returning (Corey Sevier, Kim Poirier, Elias Toufexis, Meghan Ory, and Stefanie von Pfetten). A soundtrack would have been nice. I really liked the music.


My son and I settled in to watch this movie last week and had a lot of fun. It's not going to win an academy award, but it still made us laugh... a lot.

The acting was pretty good, there were a few good scares and I think it looked like a big budget movie. My son really liked the music a lot too. I don't really know much about that, but the quality and the story were great.

Quite frankly, I was not expecting much after reading some of the posts here... but I decided to watch it anyway and was riveted! Talk about your low expectations being blown away. I guess I'm not a serious horror fan, but I do know when something is just plain, old entertaining. A lot of movies get made these days by studios and they don't seem to be able to make a good movie that often. This one, you could see that they really cared and gave it a shot. I've heard from my friends in Hollywood that getting a movie made is just about impossible. I'm glad they made this one!


The only good thing I can say about this movie was I met a very beautiful lady waiting in line and was able to trash it over coffee. Shot in Ottawa, Canada, "Decoys" hits every bad cliche in the book and then pulls one of classic bad movie mistakes:

It takes itself seriously.

Now, had the film makers gone for 'camp' and spun it, Decoys could have been one of those films you kept on your self and pulled it out for a good chuckle once in a while (Army of Darkness, Arena, Robojox... You get the picture). Instead, the film tries to go for our fear points and give us the heebie jeebies. The only heebie jeebies I got from this was seeing that they have a sequal planned for next year.

Bottom line: Set your money on fire or sit through Howard the Duck.

Twice.


In the cheapjack horror flick "Decoys" - which might more accurately be entitled "Sorority Chicks from Outer Space" - aliens disguised as blond co-ed bimbos terrorize a college campus by turning horny frat boys into freeze-dried fudgsicles. Luke is the freshman who uncovers the plot but can't get anyone to believe him.

Set on one of those college campuses in which the students pursue everything but their academic studies, "Decoys" can't seem to decide whether it wants to be a straight-ahead horror outing or a parody of the genre. Unfortunately, it fails miserably at both, being neither scary nor funny, just idiotic and lame. Although there's a reasonably diverting twist at the end, the movie can't overcome its silly script and cheesy special effects. Send it to the trash bin.


I always love it when a few angry wanna be filmmakers jump on IMDb and critique other people's work. Sure, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but when you COMPLETELY MISS THE JOKE, the joke is actually on YOU. What part of hot college chicks from another planet led you to believe this was going to be Schindler's List?! Obviously, the people who made this movie meant it to be goofy (DUH!). Too bad you can't lighten up and just enjoy the silly film that it was clearly made to be. It's entertainment. Mindless fun. Stop taking yourselves so seriously. And if you think you could do better-- move out to LA and make your movie instead of working at the Grab and Gulp.


This was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The story was full of plot holes, the camera and cutting was confusing at best and with the acting on level with kindergarten Christmas plays I cannot recommend this film to anyone but the most masochistic viewers. Avoid it like the plague if you want horror. You might find some enjoyment in watching it if you're a C-movie buff but not otherwise. I often found myself laughing but it was laughing at the movie and actors not with them. Maybe I missed the whole point and it is not intended to be a horror movie at all but a comedy on pair with "Not another teen movie" and the likes but if that is the case there were 3 of us in the room that missed the point. A very small + for the alien suits which looked quite good, but you cannot base a movie on 10 seconds of rubber suits.


Many elements of this movie weren't bad in concept. I can hardly fault the acting, campy style, special effects, or even the plot. Unfortunately, the movie fails in directing and editing, which trumps all the others.

For example, the plot is basically Species, but the writing was horrid, and the characters were not believable as a result. Are you going to believe that a college kid is still flirting with a space alien after he's seen tentacles? No.

Same for the special effects, the tentacle effects could have been great if they slowed them down by a factor of 10 or so. Again, just bad directing on that.

It all makes you wonder how the crew burned through $5 million; they certainly didn't pay the writing and editing crew anything.


If it wasn't for the occassional flash of skin, this film would have no interest at all. Don't waste any money on this one, wait.. not for the DVD but for television to show it. It should bomb fast enough to be on TV within the year. The only strong point is the presence of Meghan Ory, a beautifull newcommer who makes a strong showing in a waste of celluloid. Nicole Eggert's contribution is less than stellar, times must be tough after Baywatch. As for the alien babes, well, there's more interest at a Victoria's Secret TV special. Finally, the movie's logo for decoys is a representation of a spider; they only show up for about 2 minutes near the end of the film. No plot, no performance, no interest; who was the genius that made this looser.


On the whole, this was a pretty good, pretty fun movie. It definitely made me laugh out loud a bunch of times, and I thought the comedy was great. The horror was not really terribly scarey, more funny, which I kind of thought was the point, although I guess some people on this board disagreed. Although I really liked the comedy, there were some scenes that seemed out of place; everything with nicole eggert was just odd and that scene in the ambulance was kind of over the top. Some of the acting was really great. For example, Corey Sevier. And the girl who played Alex was amazing. Some of the acting left a lot to be desired though. Like the girl who played the goth sorority chick, she was just a horrible actress who made me cringe. But you know, it was a movie not made for a lot of money and I think on the whole it did a great job. If you have the chance, you should check it out.


Decoys isn't fine art by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a modern edition of classic "B" horror movies. There's the requisite tentacled monsters, scantily-clad (a light bit of nudity toward the beginning of the movie) sorority girls, and a hidden killer decimating the campus population...the difference in this case being that all three are the same girls. Overall, it was fun, light on the "science" part of the science fiction, and even the dialogue wasn't painfully corny. The plot was put together fairly consistently, and the acting was good for, admittedly, relative unknowns. The special effects were good quality for a relatively small film (*I* didn't see this advertised at theaters), with excellently-rendered, snappy tentacles. The creatures themselves (the women in alien form) moved a bit oddly/unrealistically, but that's something that big-budget movies still have problems with, from time to time. I liked the mechanism of the aliens' attack and the fact that their lack of belly buttons was a dead giveaway to their true natures. Ultimately, it's not Shakespeare in the Park, but it was a heck of a lot of fun to watch. I'm looking forward to the sequel, myself.


It seems to me people are too quick to dismiss a movie like Loose Change as crazy conspiracy rubbish. Opinions contrary to widely held perceptions are always met with resistance. In this case, to accept what Loose Change suggests is to acknowledge that your government doesn't serve the people after all, but only its own secret agenda, and that voters are just a necessary inconvenience in some sort of twisted Orwellian world we never knew we were part of, that need to manipulated to bring them around to accept the rhetoric of the day. Crazy? In all honesty this is similar to most religions that also require blind obedience. For whatever reason there are many who think their leaders deserve their unquestioning, unwavering faith and trust, to accept everything and anything that is thrust upon them as necessary and true. The path of least resistance is always the easiest and most secure, but, alas, not always right.

That said, the fact is that much of what Loose Change describes probably is crazy conspiracy rubbish. What it offers is merely an alternative explanation that fits the facts - something that the "official account" doesn't seem to do all that well. Even if 99% of the material in Loose Change is utter garbage, what about that remaining 1%? Doesn't that deserve your attention? Alternatively, if you feel 99% of the official account is true, what about that last 1% that just doesn't fit the data? Like all theories (including scientific ones), Loose Change will undoubtedly need to be tweaked or even completely overhauled to fit any new or contradictory information as it comes to light. Why is that such a problem? Does the official account offer that sort of flexibility?

Who knows what really happened on 9/11, but it seems fairly clear that certain parties besides the hijackers knew what was going down.


Give thanks to the internet. After bringing forth Nigerian money scams, phishing scams, identity theft, email viruses, spyware and stupid urban legends, now it thrusts upon us yet another abomination we have to warn all our friends and relatives about. Loose Change, and it's various 'editions'.

First things first. Do not believe a word this video says. Sources include anti-semitic 'news' organisations, wacky mad-scientists and alternative-science 'entrepreneurs'. (But of course they don't tell you this.) When it does cite legitimate news providers, the stories are almost always from the immediate aftermath of the attacks - a confusing time when even the media organisations themselves admit they made a terrible mess of the reporting.

If you're not careful you'll get suckered in by its logical trickery. A military document about 'Operation Northwoods', a sinister plan to stage a fake terrorist attack on US citizens, supposedly proves the government is willing to attack its own people. Yet, read the fine print: in Operation Northwoods nobody was to be killed, or even hurt; civilians weren't involved at all. And more importantly the idea never even went into planning because the government wasn't prepared to carry it out! So what does this prove again? Beware the cheap tricks to make you think the Osama Bin Laden confession video is fake. Think carefully about the astounding claims that someone stole $200 billion in gold and silver from under the World Trade Center (try calculating how much that weighs!). Ask yourself if its really possible all the phonecalls from the hijacked planes were faked. Could somebody impersonate your wife/husband without you realising? There's example after example, of dishonesty, trickery and stupidity. Take a look around the internet for the Loose Change Viewers Guide. Although a little sarcastic it lists literally hundreds of distortions, quotes out of contexts and logical blunders, and it gives the real facts behind some of the conveniently truncated quotes.

Worst of all though, despite pleas to the contrary Loose Change is an insult to the memories of those who died, those who mourn them, and those who struggled to save lives. Without daring to point the finger directly Loose Change's innuendo implicitly accuses thousands of citizens of complicity in murder. The crimes proposed simply couldn't have been committed without the assistance or subsequent lies of local government employees, clean-up workers, medical staff, coroners, the NYPD, the FDNY, hundreds of other agencies and private companies and most importantly the victims and their bereaved relatives.

It's an appalling, egotistical, nasty piece of work.


I can only say that this movie is the result of horrendous research. Even though Dylan, Jason and Korey claim that they have spent 3 years researching 9/11, they still got a lot of facts wrong:

1. AA Flight 77 that hit the Pentagon is a Boing 757 (they got that right) - but it does not have a Pratt&Whitney as claimed in Loose Change - it has a Rolls Royce engine.

2. The voice morphing technology they claim the government uses for faking the phone calls is not ready for LIVE conversations. The technology is only able to morph recorded voices. It's evident that the conversations that the passengers had with their loved ones were live conversations.

3. Most of the calls were carried out on air-phones and not cell phones

4. The movie claims that $167 billion in gold was stolen from the basement beneath WTC 7. This is more than 50% of the gold in the entire world at that point. Do you have any idea of the logistics that would be needed to transport that amount of gold?

5. It claims that Osama Bin Laden is not wearing rings where in fact numerous photos show Bin Laden wearing rings.

And there is probably a lot more. But that's not all - the "documentary" uses every trick in the book called "how to manipulate the viewer":

1. They leave out the thousands of facts that speak against the conspiracy

2. They leave out the many expert reports that support the official 9/11 report

3. They take quotes from witness testimonies out of context

4. They leave out testimonies from thousands of witnesses that don't support the claims made in Loose Change

5. They make a lot of assumptions and conjecture that fit their purpose

6. They never substantiate their claims. They just throw their claims at you as if they were facts.

The worst part of the "documentary" is the "fake phone calls" part. It really, really aggravates me to hear them mocking the victims of 9/11 - and then they have the audacity to dedicate the movie to them afterward. That pisses me off a great deal.


The point here is not about if the this film proved anything or if there really is a conspiracy. I think what the filmmakers were trying to say is that why all the concealed evidence? If the gov't has got nothing to hide then why can't we see all the evidence that we the American public has a right to. So, I have to say it is very respectable of them to dedicate this film in memory of those perished in 9-11 because, the victims out of everyone has the right to know what really happened and to be honest the gov't haven't shown us everything.

I can't say everything in this film made sense but at least, some of it is very convincing. This film has raised a lot of good questions. The American public has a right to know every answer to every question that this film has raised. Like why the small explosions in the Twin Towers after the planes have hit? I'd say that is pretty suspicious. Also, where are the bodies of the passengers for the other two planes? Why can't we hear the evidence from the black boxes on the planes? I'm not saying there is any conspiracy here but I think we have a right to know.

For those of you who's seen Farenhite 911. I'd say these two films could be linked together. If you knew what the Bush family has invested in the middle east then you know that is a big enough motivation for them to kill anyone in this world. That's why the old Bush went to war in the middle east and then the young Bush went to war in the middle east. No other president in US history has gone to war in the middle east. Why? Use your brains people. Where does all of Bush's money come from? Not from US tax payers thats for sure. Their money comes from the Saudi Royal Family who just happens to be good friends with Bin Laden. Where does Dick Cheaney's money come from? His money comes from his company that invests in communications of the troops in the middle east and home. Every time there's a war his stocks go up. People kill for money. It's plain and simple. We see it everyday in the news around us. For those of you that don't believe someone in our gov't with power won't kill for money. Then I'd say you need get out of your fairytale world and wake up. If you can make a billion dollars and you need to kill 3000 people in order to do it and you had the power to cover it up and no one would ever find out it's you until your dead would you do it? I'd say a lot of people would. Those of you that say you wouldn't because you never had that kind of power. Power is corruption. Wake up people.

Last but not least for those of you who is dissing this film I bet you don't know anyone that has died because of 9-11 and you don't have a son fighting in Iraq. Because if you do you wouldn't be so quick to dismiss this film. You would use your mind and heart and question if all this is worth my loved ones to die for. Is this all worth something? Just ask yourself that question.


Obviously, EVERYTHING should be taken loosely, especially when it comes to events as sensitive as 9/11 -- but I am shocked at how many people are choosing to not even question one ounce of what happened that particular day. It's exactly why America is in the state it's in -- no one wants to "rock the boat" or see another point of view, even if it means effecting an event that forever rocked our security as a nation.

I am further shocked that the people who are so quick to disregard even an ounce of this information haven't even bothered to research "the lies" even a little. If even 1/3 of what is said in the movie is true, isn't that enough to further investigate?


Video and film allow vast numbers of our citizenry to gather around our intentions while discovering the best or worst of our nation. The possibility of conspiracy on 9/11 is one of those ideas that will continue to incite more and more discussion as time goes by. So much of the 9/11 Truth movement makes total and logical sense. Many of those ideas are certainly in error. But, many are not. As with any disputed historical event, there will be those who deny any truth to a new theory, especially one as foreboding as this one, and those who will believe in conspiracy, no matter the evidence to the contrary. For those who watch "Loose Change" with an open mind," I suggest going to: www.911scholarsfortruth.org for a detailed and evolving discussion of the alternate possibilities. Videos such as "Loose Change" cannot cover the entire subject, nor will it ultimately force the government to conduct a totally unbiased and complete investigation (most of the evidence at ground zero has been destroyed anyway). As usual, only time and sincere scholarly legwork may eventually reveal to us to what really happened that day. For now, however, those of us who find grave gaps in the official investigation must continue to question the intent of a government that desperately needed a "Pearl Harbor" level excuse to once again invade the Middle East. Whether this disturbing video contains truth or not, it should be considered amid all the other explanations by anyone who seeks a personal truth amid the mountains of data now available on the internet. To question the official version of this event IS a patriotic act. To allow your government the luxury of unquestioning loyalty is to allow those in power the luxury of corruption. This was not the intent of our founders.


I was at first intrigued by this documentary. Then I researched the subject, from both pro- and anti-conspiracy sites. I found out that this "documentary" is a manipulative lie.

The "documentary" is only a compilation of old government plans and reports (taken out of historical and logically context), a bunch of witness-accounts taken out of context, a lot of half-truths, a lot of quotes taken out of context, a lot of "experts"-inteviews (which are mostly experts in fields which has NOTHING to do with explosions, air-planes or buildings), a lot of poorly pictures of questionable origin and a no understanding of science. This, with a X-files-kind-of-soundtrack, tries to manipulate the weak mind, to believe in Dylan Avery's Jason Bermas' political crusade against reason, logic and the established society.

One of the lies made in this "documentary" is that you could not make cell-phone-calls from an air-plane in 2001 in cruising-altitude. Because he claims that the people on flight 93, weren't alive at this point, that they had been killed, and that their voices were faked. THAT IS A LIE. I ask a good friend, who travelled a lot back then (Buisness). He confirmed to me that he could and did 2000 speak in his cell-phone on the air-plane - he called his wife, who was giving birth. You could speak in air-planes back then, the problem was that the calls was cut-off, when the plane went away from a transmitter on the ground. It has not occurred for the director, Dylan Avery, that signals also can work vertical, not only horizontally. Plus: most of the calls made from flight 93, were made on air-line phones, not cell-phones. Everybody who had just half a brain, could research this for one self. This is just another example of the manipulative lies, which this "documentary" consist of. People: please do your own research, point out all these conspiracy theorists mistakes - most of them don't have an education, and if they do it is never technical.

Another lie Dylan Avery says in this "documentary", is that the government used live-voice-morphing-technology to fake the voices of the victims on flight 93. That is simply yet another manipulative lie from Dylan Avery. A voice-morphing-technology does exist, yes, BUT IT IS NOT THAT ADVANCED YET. You cant use it live. It can be used for recorded voices, but not live, as Dylan Avery so arrogantly claims. Plus you have to have many recordings of the original voices, and then calibrate the equipment to do morph voices.

So if you think about it, then the government would have to have tail all the passengers of flight 93 for several months before 9/11, if you take Dylan Avery's word. The government would have had to have track all these passengers for months, and they would have had to control the will of all of these passengers, to make them take an air-plane 9/11. Because the government should have a recording of the voice to make a "live"-morph of it, so they must have tailed them for months, because they could not have relied on recording enough of their voice in the airport.

And Dylan Avery claims that these supposedly CIA-agents used this voice-morph-technology to call the families of the passengers of flight 93, and then sounded so convincing, talking just like them, using the words they use, accents and favourite-curse-words and all, and then convinced all the families of the passengers of flight 93?

If you try to do this yourself, think about how to do it, then you'll see how impossible it is.

So if you take Dylan Avery's word, you will see how retarded his theory really is. Either he is incredible dumb or just a liar.

Dylan Avery has no idea on how reality works - he lives in a fantasy-world of fairy-dragons and conspiracies.

But we should not be so troubled by Dylan. He uses poor sources. Most of the sources are taken from the day of the attack - 9/11/01. Right back when no one knew anything of what was going on. I can remember 9/11 my self; no one in the media knew anything. The journalists had reports that about 20 planes had been captured, then 8 planes. Also we heard from the media that there was 20.000 people in the building at the time of the collapse, or at least it was speculated within the first 24 after 9/11. There was simply mass-confusion. A lot of information came to the air, which did not happen/was not true. And that is what this "documentary" is build around - misinformation and misunderstandings. Most other sources that Dylan Avery use in this "documentary", have been taken from anti-semitic and anti-American sources. Not very reliable. Because these web-sites and other sources has a political agenda to discredit USA, Jews and Israel. They do this with misinformation and exaggerations.

The only thing positive I can say about this "documentary" is that it is slightly better than Alex Jones' poor trash of documentaries.

If you do want to watch this poorly made "documentary", do yourself a favour: research all "facts" presented in this film, so that you will not be mislead into believing that some evil-force is controlling everything. If you do not hold your head cool during this film, then you will be taken in by the lies of this documentaries.

Joseph Goebbels once said: "If you tell a lie, which is sufficiently big and keep repeating it, then people will at believe it is the truth in the end". That can also be said about this "documentary" and most conspiracy theories.


This movie made me very very angry, and not because of what it implies. But because so many people are actually swallowing this hogwash hook line and sinker. How can anyone possibly believe this crap when i would take you 15 minutes and an internet connection to find out that more or less every single claim is simply not true.

The people behind this mess simply don't have a clue. They seem to have made no actual research of their own. They have just put together a number of other peoples "research" without even the slightest attempt to even check if the facts are correct. If they had, they would have known that Flight 77 had Rolls Royce engines and the wreckage shown in the film DOES match the engines of Flight 77. Or maybe they do know and are just lying about it.

And this is certainly not the only time the film makes false claims about evidence presented on screen. They also fail to mention that not a single structural engineer supports the idea that there were bombs in the buildings.

Other things such as the gold under the WTC and the faked phonecalls are just ridiculous and makes me wonder what they were smoking while making this film.

And as usual with these stupid conspiracy theories, they fail to present any coherent theory of what really happened, they simply line up a number of lies and imagined anomalies in the official version and claim that this is evidence the government did it.

But I wont go into detail about all the errors and lies in this film, other websites that have done that already. The stupid message aside, even the technical aspects are not that impressive, the graphics are pretty ugly, the music dull and even the speaker voice gets pretty annoying after a while.


This documentary contains many factual errors and instances of flawed reasoning. The director did a poor job of finding credible witnesses and he plays on the paranoia many people have of the government. To a conspiracy theorist, nothing ever happens randomly. There is always someones behind the scenes pulling the strings. I think the funniest (and perhaps pathetic) moment of loose change is when it shows footage of the second plane hitting the second tower. The footage clearly shows the plane making a direct hit, almost a bullseye into the tower, but the narrator claims "it barely hit the tower" And the director expects me not to believe my own eyes? By the way, the narrator's smug voice gets pretty annoying. A film called screw loose change debunks practically every point made in loose change and rather convincingly. it points out the glaring errors made by this hack.


This is a well done and entertaining film/documentary.

Whether you believe every single word said on it, or you don't at all. You wont get bored, since this a very interesting presentation of another point of view of the events of 9/11. Maybe some very specific facts can be wrong, but that doesn't means this movie is not worth watching. I would recommend this film, since you can watch it for free from different sources through the internet.

I am amazed by number of Reviews rating this movie with 1, that I actually consider the possibility of people being paid to rate it that way. Eg. Look How most of the negative reviews are twice or three times longer than the positive ones...


And I don't mean about the movie. I mean about what happened on 9 -11- 01. I didn't have to be the brightest person on earth to note that the towers felt unexpectedly fast and soon, too perfect. To note that there were none airplanes remains on the ground where the tragedy occurred, both at the pentagon and Flight 93 crash site. This guys are trying to compiled all these questions many of us have, researching on dark and fuzzy ground and trying to make some sense out of it. They are not making everything up. They have people, testimonies, graphic material... and I can't say thats the true, but I can say that neither is what the media, controlled by the government has been feeding us from that day. So, I say give it a chance, see it. Then you decide what to believe.


Most of these 9/11-Conspiracy Theorists think that USA, Jews or India planned 9/11, to blame it on the Muslims - do harm Islam, or to start a "war on Terror" (to get more power and oil). What a great idea.... for a movie. Because it would be a great plan, if it could be executed without anyone knowing.

9/11 happened, and the conspiracy theories was there - from the start. Many conspiracy theorists believed that USA or others planned 9/11, even though they had not examined the subject - it was their prejudge, that USA or Jews are behind every bad thing happening in human history, from the biblical-flood, to the plague in the middle-ages to finally 9/11.

The thing is that conspiracy theories WANTS Jews or USA to be the one responsible - and they fit one-sided facts and witness-testimony into their theory.

The problem with conspiracy theories is that they are not scientific of nature - but political.

Conspiracy theorists, when they are making their conspiracy theory, starts with the conclusion and then works his or her way from there. What ever fact nearly fits the theory are made to fit, no matter how much they have to manipulate.

Conspiracy theorists would never exist if they wanted to listen to people, beyond themselves. Conspiracy theorists only believe in them selves, or kindred spirits, they are like religious fanatics. They don't want to listen to other people.

These 9/11-Conspiracy Theories all have logical explanations. If only the Conspiracy theorists had the brains or will to do their own research, and listen to other people. There is a logical explanation for all the 9/11-Conspiracy theories. Just look here: 911myths.com But I know that 9/11-Conspiracy theorists will never look at the site, only because they want to keep their prejudges that Americans or Jews are behind every evil act in the history of the world, including 9/11.

About 9/11:

If USA planned 9/11, then why haven't a single person from the Police, Fire fighters, NSA-, FBI, CIA, Military, Air-traffic-control-people, most of the house of representatives, demolition-experts, Scientists, rescue-workers and the whole Bush-administration squealed and told the world about the largest mass-murder in modern American History? Why haven't someone revealed this great secret? Because an attack of that magnitude, on its own soil, would involve thousands of the governments own people, and these conspiracy theorists tell us that all these thousands of people had no ethical-problems with keeping the secret of this mass-murder.... Conspiracy theorists live in a fantasy-world.

USA did not plan 9/11, all logic and reason speaks against it.

Also, if the USA planned it, then why did they use 19 men from Saudi-Arabia??? Would it not be more clever to use 19 Iraqies, Iranians, Afghans or maybe even North-Koreans as patsies??? If people from Iraq would had been in the airplanes 9/11, then the "war on terror" would have been more easy to justify. And if this USA-Shadow-Government planned 9/11, then they would not have used 19 Saudies.

USA, Jews or India did NOT plan 9/11, get over your childhood-fantasies conspiracy-theorists!

Sane people, please click onto this site, it will answer all questions about the 9/11-conspiracy theories:

911myths.com


I was watching this movie and had to look up why it is totally false.

The author answered it on his web site - "It was that month that I began writing "Loose Change," a fictional story about my friends and I discovering that September 11th was not a terrorist attack, but rather, an attack by their own government." Seems they went along and just kept increasing the fiction level. If love fiction, you will love Loose Change.

If you want truth avoid this movie! If you use the internet to find information, you will have to sort out the 98 percent junk you find before you can find rational thought on 9/11, yet you will find all this movie's information for free.

This is the movie, if you like conspiracy and do not want facts and real evidence to clutter your thoughts or help you make conclusions. This is the movie to satisfy the most discerning tin foil hat viewer there is, or ever will be. Relax and let someone else do your thinking.

You know when your parents told you not to trust anyone? These are the guys they were talking about.


"Loose Change" is a thought-provoking little documentary that draws attention to and questions the "official" story of what really happened on 9/11. It takes a couple of free-thinking college kids to put together such a video, since the media gets paid to divert our attention from real facts with inane terrorist warnings, "muscle" hijacker tales, bogus pancake theories and other heroic schlock. The events which unfolded on 9/11 were indeed, well-coordinated, well thought-out, planned years in advance and executed with (just enough to fool the average dummy) military precision, by not by Osama Bin Laden or Saddam Hussein, that's for sure. Complete with knife-toting hijackers, pulverized airplanes, collapsing skyscrapers and brave firemen, Hitchcock couldn't have crafted a better script. You've seen Wag the Dog, haven't you?

See, there are actually people who believe in a 'New World Order' in which the USA is the omnipotent world power. All the Neo-cons do their part to contribute. The Bushes have at least eight years (Clinton's run) to plan their 'New Pearl Harbor' event, of which the first and biggest hurdle is getting their boy into office. With the election fixed, the Patsie in place, the biggest hurdle is overcome. Of course this time Cheney and Rummy have to pull ALL the strings cause, unlike his daddy, Dubya has the IQ of a hockey puck. Once he's elected, they waste no time in carrying out 9/11, "The Big Wedding."

Neo-clan member Giuliani makes his pal Silverstein an offer he can't refuse - sacrifice two asbestos-riddled, low rent behemoths in exchange for millions in insurance money, and a bonus to be determined later (when Rudy becomes President?) A Bush cousin just happens to be in charge of security for the entire WTC complex, offering uninhibited access (you WILL want to read more about this.) Quite the coincidence! Schedule war games to confuse NORAD, have agents at the ready to confiscate evidence immediately following the attacks, cart away the thousands of pounds of steel as quickly as possible from ground zero and ship it overseas before it can be examined, publish photos of all 19 hijackers within days of the event, reinforcing hatred of the 'enemy' before it's even determined who the culprits are. It's genius, really, until Silverstein slips and admits they "pulled" WTC #7 on purpose. Whoops! And I doubt if one of those neo-Nazis realized that using so much Thermate would leave molten steel burning in pools at the foundations of the buildings for weeks. What fire ever gets hotter AFTER millions of gallons of water are poured on it? D'oh!

A 757 crashed in an open field. There were no dead bodies found, no luggage, no seats, no wire harnesses, no wing sections, no tail sections, no nothing. Photographers weren't allowed near the shallow pit. (See realistic plane crash debris in "War of the Worlds.") There were no Arabic names on the passenger lists of any of those planes. How were they identified so quickly if they all died and their names were not on the manifests? Hmmm.

Subsequently, we have been put in fear of our lives by Osama Bin Laden and other "terrorists" from "The Axis of Evil" who hate our freedom and may strike again at any time. Yeah, right. The anthrax scare that immediately followed 9/11 was just one more trumped up plan to scare the population even further and intimidate law makers into voting for a policy the republicans needed to push their NWO. There were no mysterious middle eastern men mailing anthrax to democrats! Turns out, the anthrax came from a US government lab.

Just look at each detail and you will find that it was absolutely planned by the government, with no other logical explanation. It's not surprising that so many of you think "Loose Change" is bull. The government banks on the fact that most people are simpletons who believe everything they read in the paper and take whatever the president spews in his press conferences as gospel truth. Hah! Really, the one and only Conspiracy Theory here is the one published by the 9/11 Commission. I think Barbara Honegger said it best, "Only a military aircraft would have given off the 'friendly' signal needed to disable the Pentagon's anti-aircraft missile batteries as it approached the building. Only the military, not al Qaeda, had the ability to break all of its Standard Operating Procedures to paralyze its own emergency response system" on 9/11.


The government's official version of 19 hijackers with boxcutters is totally unacceptable. No investigative expert can simply dismiss the blatant exclusion of critical evidence throughout the "9/11 Commission Report". These important omissions are listed in an intensely well-researched report titled - "The 9/11 Commission Report: A 571-Page Lie", by Dr. David Ray Griffin. It's available online for anyone to read through. The 9/11 commission report doesn't even mention WTC 7. Hello? Was the mysterious collapse of that building not a part of the investigation? Also, how about the fact that 6 of the hijackers have been found alive. These kids may be wrong about some of their conclusions on what actually happened, but that doesn't make the government's official version of events any more credible. At least these guys are still asking the questions that have been left unanswered. We need a new investigation NOW!


To say this movie is useless isn't quite right. I can think of one purpose: tell your friends to watch it and have them tell you what they think. If they come back and tell you "Wow, this was amazing; it opened up my eyes; the gov't did 9/11", then your friends are either A) idiots, or B) dishonest... in either case, this movie is an incredibly effective tool to let you know who not to bother hanging around.

Boy oh boy... factual error after factual error... outright lie after outright lie... pissing on grave after grave of 9/11 victim... The fact that this horse feces is sweeping the nation's college campuses completely makes me lose any faith in higher education and proves to me only that far too many college kids prefer spooky techno music to silly boring things like research and the desire to find reality.

So yeah, other than that handy little intelligence test, Loose Change is completely useless. Read Mark Roberts's Viewer Guide; it blows to hell every single point LC tries to make and calls them on every single error. http://www.loosechangeguide.com/LooseChangeGuide.html


This film has provoked such discussion amongst all of you, just read the comments, that i'm quite impressed. Those of you who blame it on conspiracy theory, are being single minded. I do not believe that the film is totally correct; actually, a lot of it is probably wrong. But only a small bit of correct evidence is not good enough. They have no conclusive evidence, but this helps their case to some extent. If the video tapes from the nearby buildings were just released straight away, then there would be no controversy, as they could have blown the Pentagon attack as a missile out of the water. But it wasn't. Isn't that just slightly strange? If the FDR was uncovered and released to the press, then it would blow their theory out of the water. But it wasn't found. How does a building, which nowadays are constructed so very carefully, free fall due to a fire in the upper segments. I'm not a great physicist, but there's something wrong here. Buildings just don't free fall, seriously. These are some of the more interesting discussion points, and i feel that they really ought to be discussed. One final fact that they have right, is that the Bush government did benefit from the attack. In favour of the sceptics, bombs could have been planted by terrorists, (I do think bombs were planted and went off, buildings don't free fall) and we all know at the moment that a bomb is one of the terrorists greatest weapons.

I was disappointed that they took an opinion at the end, as one of the pros of the film was that it just gave evidence, perhaps slightly biased, and no accusations. I liked the film, because it obviously took a long time to put together, and there is an element of mystery. Except the soundtrack, which was corny and unnecessary.


Many people did not question what they were told by the Media and the Government, regarding the terrible events on September 11th 2001 (911). The official story was just accepted with out question in all the chaos and terrible loss of life that day. Now, clearer heads have prevailed, and further investigation by noted and highly trained professionals, scientists, and academics, and many concerned people, has raised serious questions as too what we were told, as to what really happened that fateful day on September 11th 2001. It is now very evident, from research, investigation, and peer review, that the official story is not only wrong; but that nefarious actions by Israel and the United States Government were at the center of the September 11th 2001 events, which had been planned for months in advance. Now a group of people, called the Truth Seekers, have been systematically and diligently looking into the facts of September 11th 2001, and as a result, have, and are, exposing large numbers of false information about this event, and exposing the real Truth behind September 11th 2001. What the real Truth is, has yet been fully exposed or agreed on; but it is now very clear that what America and the World was told about the events of September 11th 2001 are not only not True at all, but has a sinister twist to it that involves secret involvement of Israel and the United States Government in a preplanned plot to stage this event for nefarious purposes and for political manipulation of the American People, and the World. This documentary is hard hitting, and raises serious concerns and questions as to the Truth of the events of September 11th 2001. Every American should see this documentary, as should Citizens Globally. America and the World were deceived in one of the most nefarious events in modern history. Learn the Real Truth behind this most diabolical and evil event of modern human history. Now learn the TRUTH, and see this great Documentary. You will be very glad you did! More information about this information and the Truth Seekers can be found at: http://www.loosechange911.com -and- http://www.infowars.com Think, Question, and Seek Truth! God Bless America!


Wake up people.

Governments the world over don't care about you. They are run by human beings just like you. Some of you steal paper clips from work or enjoy sneaky perks.

People with lots of power steal bigger things and commit more serious crimes.

Let go of your misplaced respect for human beings in charge.

They are not even in charge of themselves.

Loose Change asks questions that few people want to know about.

Funny how when tough questions are asked, dumb people come out with sledge hammers.

These are only questions...little questions...but the people who don't want to know arm themselves to the teeth and viciously refute them all.

They are subconsciously afraid of their inability to think.

They love other people speaking for them.

Humans hey. Strooth.

Don't get angry when your government is questioned. Your government who is so powerful, but who let a gang of 'terrorists' infiltrate and kill thousands.

See, there ain't nothing good about the government. Governments suck.

Every military person, every politician, every analyst, every aide, every national security person should have resigned in disgrace after 911. Why are they still all there? You can almost see them getting fatter off the carcasses of the people they helped kill.

These are evil narcissistic human beings.

Why weren't they all sacked for gross incompetence? How do they sleep at night? There might be no bigfoot, no aliens, no JFK hit, no Loch Ness monster, no boogie man, no ghosts, no sixth sense, no magic, no god, no devil, no nothing....

but there is the 911 lie.

A terrorist's passport survived the horrific explosion and landed onto the street where an FBI agent was on the scene to bag it? Now come on!! The greatest minds in the field of steal structures use the term 'pancake theory' to explain the collapses? Spare me! Anyway, just keep flying that flag, salute your first in command, cook your sausages and enjoy the country that was peacefully inhabited by the soulful Indians many years ago.

You are scum. White Europeans and their machinery and undustrialisation and their dollar value on everything has set the tone for the sad, sad state of affairs.

But, hey, we are human beings. We are territorial. Dumb like apes. We guard our territory, we fight, we steal, we kill. We are dirty apes.

But we also think.

I think the official 911 story is rubbish.

I think 99% of the population of the western world are primitive scum.

I think Loose Change is melodramatic. It's one of many documentaries that uses stupid atmospheric music to aid its message.

Like a shot gun, it misses a lot of the target...but some of the shot is on the mark...and those are the bits that hurt the people who believe the official story hook line and sinker.


This poorly made documentary tries to convince people that CIA somehow planned 9/11, because they wanted a war on terror. At first it sounds like a fantastic plan for a fictional movie, but people actually believes in it - almost like a religion.

Since its release, all the facts have been disputed, and even the creators of this "documentary" admits that it is full of flaws. But they don't care if they have evidence of their claims or not, as long as USA is responsible for 9/11, then they are happy.

But why don't any of these conspiracy theorists think for just 1 minute? If the CIA planned 9/11, to make the war on terror, then the Arabs must have been patsies. But then why was the Arabs from Saudi Arabia???? If the CIA and American Government is so powerful as the Conspiracy Theorists claim, then they made the Arabs come to America to be in the Planes. But then why from Saudi Arabia, if USA after-wards waged war against Afghanistan and Iraq?? If the CIA was so powerful as the conspiracy theorists claim, then they would made Iraqies and Afghans go into those planes, because then they would have a greater argument to attack the Arab-countries in the so-called war on terror, especially Iraq.

The problem is that it is not a concern of the conspiracy theorists. Because it is religion to them. They WANT the Americans to be responsible for every major event in history. They want to see CIA pulling the strings.

The typical Conspiracy theorists, when working on a conspiracy theory, starts with the conclusion, and then works from there, choosing the evidence that can fit the theory and discarding and ignoring all facts and evidence that contradicts the overall theory.

Also all the facts of this film have been debunked: www.911myths.com

The worst part of the film is when Dylan Avery claims that the families of the victims of United 93 didn't talk to the passengers on the plane. No, Avery claims that they talked to CIA-agents, who used voice-reconstruction-technology, to make it seem that there where a struggle on the plane. The technology in question is just a new technology, that CANT be used live, it has to be used on a recording, and even then it is not 100 % accurate. Also different people have different way of speaking, not only accents and voice, but also how they react, humor, way of talking and so on, which technology cant imitate. Also if they copied their voices, then they must have had all these many passengers, all of them mind you, under surveillance for months. And also many of the people that where on the plane didn't even decide to board the plane until few days before. You conspiracy theorists aren't using your mind.

And then think of how complex this plan is: monitoring hundreds of people, making sure that none of the thousands of pilots, airport-personal, CIA, NSA, FBI, Policemen, firemen and citizens didn't talk. Making sure this voice-reconstruction-technology worked. Killing all the people on United 93, by many military-men, who had no moral problems with it. Don't you get it? If just one of these factors didn't work, then the whole operation fell?? And people would know the truth. Which heavily implies that there WAS NO CONSPIRACY.


This so-called "documentary", tries to "document" that George Bush and CIA planned 9/11, and that no Muslim would or could ever blow himself up in a suicide-attack (though they do everyday in Iraq).

The documentary is SO full of flaws and direct lies, that the creators of this "documentary" have even admitted it. But they don't care if there is evidence or not, as long as CIA and Bush did it.

The whole notion is paranoid and Americanistic - I.E. the idea that everything, good and bad, is caused only by USA, and that the rest of the world doesn't matter or doesn't exist.

It is a retarded Conspiracy theory. It is total Paranoia. I hate when paranoia somehow gets viewed as fact. When speculation gets turned into fact. I am a conspiracy-basher. Ever since i saw a conspiracy-Mockumentary, by a french director, named "Operation Lune". TV told it was fact. As an idiot i believed it blindly: because it is was on TV. Then years later i found out that it was a fake documentary, to highlight how easy it is to make people believe any conspiracy with a documentary with made-up facts. And at that point i knew how Hitler had made his lies into fiction. I knew the horrible power of the Conspiracy theorists. And i knew that i had to fight it. Because if Conspriacy theories are not challenged at every given moment, then they turn into fact for most people.


I've seen this awful trash 1 time. If you weren't clever, you would easily be taken in by the lies of this movie.

The way so many people believe in this movie, without doing research themselves, really highlights how dictators like Adolf Hitler came into power.

Funny thing though: the people that hate this movie all have much text to explain why this movie is flawed and full of lies. While the conspiracy theorists who love this movie, only have a few lines to say about the movie - nothing concrete. Really highlights both kind of peoples intelligence. A typical comment from The conspiracy theorists could be: "Me love, is good, against Bush, Against America, against Jew, bla bla bla". While the comments from people that hate sound like this: "This movie is flawed, because of these facts etc.". Also most of the conspiracy theorists who have commented this movie, only have commented this movie. Which makes me suspect that most of all the users that love this movie, is just one person, who wants to up-vote his favorite movie.

But this is not a documentary, it is a political movie, with something that sounds like facts.

But all the lies of this movie have been debunked, thankfully. www.911myths.com


What defines a conspiracy theorist (CT)

1) Believes any weird theory blindly, as long as it goes against all logic and reason. 2) Is a virgin. 3) Is willing to lie and manipulate as much as possible as much as possible to convince/convert people to their believes.

But that aside, this is an awful film - yes it is not a documentary, i think it is fiction.

Do you CT's (Conspiracy theorists) really believe that Dylan Avery have uncovered the "truth", by digging trough old government records, websites and archive footage to expose this? The man is a college student or dropout - he has no experience in the world (but then again neither do you CT's).

Do you really think it is possible that Dylan Avery have exposed that the white house have cynical killed 3000 people 9/11?? And that the white house somehow let Dylan Avery do this documentary? The answer is no. If all what is in this "documentary" is correct, then we can assume that the government is "all powerful" and "all knowing". We can assume that the government have no moral problems with killing thousands of innocent people. The government are according to all CT's cynical mass-murders, who kills people without second thought. And yet Dylan Avery was allowed to live and make his "documentaries" that could bring down the whole government-system, and he has also been allowed to make a second and now even a third version of his film (he keeps updating them, because he has to replace his exposed his old lies and disproved facts with new lies and facts). The point is that he is allowed to live proves that all the conspiracy theories are lies.

The thing about conspiracy theories is that they are not scientific in nature, they are political and psychological of nature. People want to see a big conspiracy theory behind it all. They want Americans to be responsible. Because according to their prejudges Arabs and Muslims aren't clever enough or angry enough to do such a thing - only Americans. Conspiracy theorists wants some American conspiracy to be responsible for everything ad that has ever happened in human history.

The fact is that there are evil men in the American government, as well as in every single government in the world, and in every religion. They have to be evil, to combat evil, and to do good in the end.

Every man or woman who cant see that there is an undying hate towards the USA is an idiot. Of course Al-Quada exists, and of course they planned 9/11 and executed it - even though you conspiracy theorists wants it to be Americans.

I have known many Muslims, and in many of them, the hate exist - so move out of your grand-mothers basement, conspiracy theorists, see the world, and you will know that evil does not only exist in USA - it is all around us all.

Conspiracy theorists: do you actually think that the US-Government planned all this, and then somehow got the thousands of FBI-agents, fire-fighters, demolition-experts, scientists, CIA, rescue-workers, NSA, airline pilots, Police, the house of representatives, high-level military contractors, air-traffic controllers and the whole Bush-administration to keep this big secret?? Do you actually believe that?


I know what people are thinking, another documentary based on conspiracy theories, but just for one minute ask yourselves, why are there so many of these films (documentaries) barking up the same tree?, maybe, just maybe there's some fact in what is being told. Also remember most if not all of these films are made by Americans not by outsiders and as a result of the attacks on the Twin Towers 100,000 Iraqis' have perished, and now in Britain the US and majority of the world the war is being called illegal but we cry for the 179 soldiers (UK) that have died out there fighting for their country but not for one minute do we realise the chaos and death we have caused.

Watch it with an open mind and question it but if you have already come to a conclusion that this film is a farce then avoid it and God help you.


People that disagree with this film use words like 'lies' and phrases like 'conspiracy theorists' to describe it. One even claims that this film disrespects the victims of 911! On the contrary, I believe it's those that go with the status quo and believe everything they hear in the news and everything their politicians tell them is the gospel truth, that disrespect the memory of the dead! I am not saying that this film has it all right. More questions are asked than answered, but on the whole, I believe the point of this film is to get you thinking and talking with an open mind. It asks a lot of the viewer. It's almost uncomfortable to watch because most of the points covered leave you with a reasonable doubt with regards to the official version of the events of 911. There is more to the story of 911 than we have been told, this film should leave you wanting to learn more about the truth, as long as you have an open mind and are not averse to having your preconceived ideas challenged!


As an evenings entertainment this film is intriguing viewing, as a valid look at what happened on 911 this film flounders in a mire of its own making.

The point of the film is that something other than the official story occurred on 911. According to this film the planes that hit the World Trade Center were not the planes we were told, that a missile hit the Pentagon, flight 93 was shot down, that some or all of the planes were off loaded and the people may still be alive, the collapse of the twin towers was the work of demolition not the crashes, and that there is some grand conspiracy behind it all.

Its an intriguing idea, or series of them. The problem is that not a great deal of it really hangs together, at least not in the way that is presented here. Could it be possible? yes, but not with what we are given as evidence.

There is little real expert testimony. We only get snippets from other sources. No real expert in any field is interviewed. (which is important when it comes to construction of the Twin Towers since they were unlike any other building that they are compared to when they talk about fires in steel buildings) We are only given statements, usually one line from someone, we don't know anything about other than a title, about things they may or may not know about.

Every person who saw anything is accorded equal weight (a woman who appears to be watching events from Brooklyn or lower Manhattan, far from the towers, is heard to say that the plane crashing into the tower isn't American so therefore its not American.) Everyone is seen to be telling the truth at all times. A miss quote of President Bush is seen as proof of something other than as a mistake. The filmmakers also take every news report as gospel truth with a report of the blowing up of one of the towers roofs being portrayed as true when the footage shows its not There is no room for any error in any news footage, its not an error but signs of the conspiracy.

The evidence in one sequence of pictures is forgotten when discussing another so that the evidence of the planes that hit the towers being commercial airlines from some shots is dismissed because its not clear in others. (also the phone report of one eyewitness that is contradicted by photographic evidence is given a great deal of weight) And at times the film throws things out-like the off loading of passengers, but gives no evidence as to why this may have happened or what happened to the people. You can't make claims if you don't back them up. Likewise unexplained is talk of a conspiracy that it has no shred of evidence as to who or what is behind it. You need to tell me more than just "they are behind it". Tell me who "They" are It really annoys me because as long as you don't think about what the film is saying or the inconsistent stories its spinning this is a really well done piece of film making. Frankly I could almost believe its stories, except that none of them make any real sense when you stop to think about them.

Worth a look, with a large grain of salt, simply because it lays out the alleged conspiracy many people feel is real. Fortunately or unfortunately it fails to make its case because its evidence is severely lacking.


i saw this on Youtube and thought it was very interesting. Basically, its a documentary. A documentary on what people believe what really happened on 9/11 was a government conspiracy. now, being skeptical of the government is one thing, and it's good to be skeptical, it shows you're a human being with a mind and that your mind is smart enough to actually do research before you believe the truth. unfortunately for all 3 Loose Change movies, there a TON of facts they got wrong. (for more information, see "Screw Loose Change" on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkh0Mx3bLDU ) writing this comment, people probably think i'm a guy getting paid to type this. well no, i'm not, i promise you that.

Loose Change was made by Dylan Avery, a twenty something year old guy with a weird voice. now i give him credit, because he actually made a decent screenplay, if only he got more of his facts right. Loose Change for the most part is pretty boring, with some unnecessary info and a few non-resourced quotes.

viewing this documentary, it depends on what you think. if you believe that the government had something to do with 9/11, then you might find it pretty true. but if you think it's bologna, and you want to check for actual facts like me, then you'll find it has a lot of mistakes in it, which is BIG when it comes to an even like 9/11.

2 out of 10, because i liked some of the music


...as MOST of the very very unjustified and critical reviews about Loose Change SE are from people who only wrote ONE comment on IMDb; to tell us that this movie is rubbish because it's facts are wrong.

Yeah, right.

I liked this movie because someone has to dare to produce such stuff. It is highly entertaining as well. And it will make us rethink about what we behold as true. Which is very important because most people are eating what the American Media is giving them to eat: Bu**Sh**

And no matter what the truth is, it is not the official report and that is a fact for sakes. We are the people and the government needs its people like it needs the government. But it is the people to be supposed to have the power, not the government. Go to some courses of constitutional law, you might learn something about the philosophical background of a State, its territory and its population.


I saw this movie and then I read the Popular Mechanic's debunking. I also watched the debates on TV featuring the producers of Loose Change and various skeptics.

Without going into how emotionally charged these young men are (which is a funny thing for me to say because I'm only 25 myself), I was constantly annoyed by how they liked to repeat 'it just doesn't add up'.

In my opinion, conspiracy theorist start off with an advantage, because while the adherents to the official version of events must PROVE their claims, the conspiracy theorists don't - they succeed when they manage to create enough doubt about the official version of events.

I agree that there are some questionable areas in the official version of events.

However, the alternative simply does not add up.

Here are the reasons why the conspiracy theory (that the US government planned and carried out 9/11) does not add up.

1. Why would the US government blow up the third building ('building 7') with bombs, hours after the attack? Why would they do this on purpose? Wouldn't doing so raise questions in everyone's minds???

2.Why would the US government fire a cruise missile into the Pentagon, and then say it was attacked by a passenger plane? Why would they risk being found out? Why not use a real plane (passenger plane or otherwise) and drive it into the pentagon, so that there is no danger of people raising questions about the lack of identifiable remnants of the plane at the crash site?

3. Why would the US government crash 2 passenger planes into the WTC, and also blow up the buildings with bombs planted at various floors? Why risk being found out? Why not just blow up the WTC with bombs in the first place (with no planes crashing into them), and then claim it was a terrorist attack (of which they have proof)???

4. The official version claims that the planes were hijacked by terrorists, and that they crashed them into the WTC. But if the conspiracy theorists are correct, then who flew those planes into the WTC? Religious extremists are well known to strap bombs to their chests for suicide bombing, but are we to believe that somebody was prepared to die for the economic benefits of the USA??? If they were driven by an autopilot (as some people claim), then how can you explain the frantic phone calls of the passengers to their families???

They say truth is stranger than fiction. Sure it is strange that the 'building 7' collapsed, but just because you do not fully understand something, it doesn't mean it cannot happen.

In summary, I think that the theories put forward by Loose Change have at least 10x the number of inconsistencies that the official version has.

Now you'll probably claim that I am really a CIA agent who is typing this from some unknown location, under direction from some unknown branch of government.

OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH... creepy.........


Loose Change is a documentary created by three college students. The documentary looks to answer a very important question... what happened on 9/11? Their theories? Let's take a look:

1) The U.S. government planned and orchestrated the attacks on its own soil, causing the deaths of more than 3000 innocent people. To try to prove that the government is capable of such a thing, they make a reference to a fake terrorist attack, which was to be carried out in Cuba in the 1960s. The only catch is, nobody in that "attack" was supposed to be injured. I fail to see what this has to do with 9/11. Now, I'm not a big fan of the U.S. government. Matter of fact, I cannot stand it, along with Bush. But to actually suggest that they would be able to carry out such a horrible act, both morally and tactically, AND keep it a secret is ludicrous!

2) The Pentagon wasn't hit by flight 77... it was hit by a cruise missile. They try to prove this by saying that there is a lack of plane parts, and the parts that are there are not from a 757. Brilliant! I don't know how they missed the mountains of debris sitting on the lawn of the Pentagon. And anyone with half a brain could figure out that if a plane hit a building, it would leave a hole, not a cookie-cutter outline of an airplane like in a cartoon.

3) The WTC towers collapsed because they were rigged with explosives, and it was a planned implosion. Again, brilliant. They also say that the plane "barely hit" tower 2. That really got me angry. The plane flew into it at 500+ knots. If it was a planned implosion, how, oh wise college students, could they rig both of the ENTIRE buildings without anyone noticing?

4) Flight 93 didn't crash. It landed safe and sound in Cleveland, Ohio, and the passengers somehow magically disappeared. The phone calls from the planes were all faked. It is "impossible" to make cell phone calls from that altitude. All I can say is, how do these people sleep at night? How on earth do they have the audacity to make such an outrageous claim!

5) The attacks had nothing to do with Osama bin Laden because, get this, he said so! He said he had nothing to do with it. So the creators disregard the mountains of evidence that proves what really happened on 9/11 and they take Osama's word as it were sacred. Why don't you just spit on the victims' graves?

Loose Change is a documentary filled with half-truths, speculation, quotes taken out of context, poor research, logical fallacies, distorted facts, and testimonials from other conspiracy theorists. The research done by these guys was very poor. Not ONCE do they even attempt to actually contact a real expert, because that would disprove their theories right away. The so-called experts that they use are themselves conspiracy theorists. All of the news sources quoted in the film are from right after the attacks. As a matter of fact, I don't think there is a single news article quoted that was from after 2001. A lot of times, the creators are dishonest. And what really gets my blood boiling is that these guys take their opinions and theories and state them as fact! Unbelievable.

You should always question everything before believing it, and that includes garbage like this. Throughout the whole thing, I don't think they prove a single point. I don't think they even have one. Loose Change is misleading and dishonest at best, and downright offensive at worst.

Recommended reading: http://www.loosechangeguide.com/LooseChangeGuide.html


This show is so great. Shows like this only come once in a blue moon, and sadly, most American viewers don't get the wacky brilliance. This was one of the last MTV shows I was happy to see. There were so many great segments, most notably precious Roy and calls from the public. I also really enjoyed the main characters' totally inane conversations. It was hilarious in such an absurd way. So many of my friends I went to high school with also loved this show. It's too damn bad a show like this didn't get picked up by Comedy Central or Adult Swim, because those channels were better at dealing with more out of the box shows. It's surprising that no other shows have tried to do something like this, considering how little money it would cost to make


This show was bad ass! It would've been so AWESOME if they could've been on TV for more than two seasons. The parts of season 3 that I've seen were even better than the first two (on average). Cripes, there was so many funny things on that show, I miss it big time. I just about loved every character, but especially Sifl, Chester and Stealth. It's great how they had guests on like the devil, God, his arch angel (let me give a shout-out to all my ARCH ANGELS IN THE HOUSE!!!) Michael, Earth, Mars, the Sun, and jeez a whole lot more I can't think of now. When Chester beat Grout on Trivia Trapazoids I just about crapped my pants. "Why? Why?" Of all the songs they did, my favorite was when Olly just got back from Seattle and did that bad-ass punk song about how "HIS SO-CALLED LIFE IS JUST LAIM!!!" ROCK!!! That show rocked.


As the child of a single parent who is deaf, Beyond Silence is, in most aspects, a very true portrait of how I grew up. Scenes such as going to the bank and talking to the teacher were my actual experiences and difficulties I have faced all the time. It was just so real I couldn't help getting emotional as the story went on. For those who live or work with deaf or hard-of-hearing people, this is a must see; for those who don't, you should definitely see it as well and cherish your good sense of hearing -- being able to communicate easily is not a gift for everyone as most people take for granted.


I was lucky enough to get to see this movie in a German lesson in school. Basically right from the start I was caught up in it and knew, that this would be something different. The mood of the movie simply progressed with ease and gentleness, and at the same time hurled you into a world many never would have thought of. The world of a normal young girl, who has to go through an unusual dilemma, because both of her parents are deaf, and at the same time face the difficulties of life, experiencing her own true self. Finding herself turns out to be one of the real challenges in her life, because she has to separate herself from her parents and walk down her own path, without turning her back on them. She wants to be a musician, an idea which her father does not understand or support. Becoming a musician, despite the fact that her parents are deaf, gives a very clear and pure image, of how children tend to disobey their parents and create their own identity. The movie ends without really wrapping up every lose end, but it does not spoil it. Nonetheless it gives the movie the perfect ending, in which everything that really matters, works out. The idea of the movie and the very story has, as I have mentioned, a very deep and original plot, but this movies has more to it than this. Great acting (especially from the father), great music and is overall greatly directed and written. Good movie with many details. 7/10


German films are like a tombola.You pull a lottery ticket and mostly its waste money. But sometimes you have luck and your ticket is the jackpot. Caroline Link,the director,from Bad Nauheim,my home town,is with Tom Tykwer and Hans-Christian Schmid the only hope for the german film. It was her first film for the cinema and then it was nominated for the golden globe. Its a wonderful film. You can love,hate,dream,cry and laugh. The protagonists are all very believeable. Mrs.Link doesn t need any special effects or optical drumbaborium to tell her story. One newspaper wrote,as good as candle-light,and thats the perfect description of the film. And I want to add,as soft as snow-flakes.


I think this is a GREAT film, and a wonderful piece of artwork. A very touching story between Lara and her parents. By the end I was weeping I was so touched ( and I don't cry easily at movies ). The Deaf culture is one very few of us take time to understand, but I think through films we can at least try. I HIGHLY recommend this film to anyone who is interested in Deaf culture, or just a great foreign film.


One person asked whether German Sign Language is the same as American Sign Language, and, knowing just a bit of ASL, I can tell you that it appears to be the same. (French SL is almost identical, and I presume it's similar throughout the western countries.)

As for the movie, it's one of the best I've seen. Two things I especially liked about it: 1. The story is totally individual, and it isn't part of any genre -- it's just a real-people story. (I remember thinking this about "Fearless" as well.) 2. The story is so well written around the main character, Lara -- she herself has many facets to her personality, but no other character sees all of them. Each person understands and evokes only one side of her. This creates conflicts within the character, which the actresses do a great job of expressing.

What a terrific movie.


"Beyond Silence" is a tender look at the rift which develops between a young girl and her deaf parents as she and her interest in the clarinet grow. The film delivers it's story with a soft touch, avoiding extremes while maintaining an earnest sense of legitimacy. Excepting a few minor glitches, the film is technically and artistically well done, the acting good, the directing superb, and the story warm and thoughtful. A worthwhile watch.


Young Lara is in a most unusual situation: her parents are both deaf-mute, so she has to communicate for both of them. It's sort of a constraining situation, and when a relative gives Lara the chance to become a musician, her parents try to keep her at home. She will have to choose.

The idea of the daughter having to speak for her parents is not something that I ever would have thought about, but "Jenseits der Stille" (called "Beyond Silence" in English) made me think about it. It's always good to be able to see such intellectual stories, especially when Hollywood makes so many pointless blow-'em-up movies.


I recently rented the movie, "Beyond the Silence," and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

As a sign language interpreter, I have read many books about CODA's (Children of Deaf Adults). I think that "Beyond the Silence" does a pretty good job of showing the difficulty and extra responsibilities that a child with deaf parents experiences.

If you enjoyed this movie, I would suggest reading the book "At a Loss for Words." It's a very touching story about a girl growing up with deaf parents and coming to terms with her feeling of guilt and anger and also love for them.

I'm not trying to be "preachy," but PLEASE don't call deaf people "mute." That term is negative and out-of-date.