When
a new resident arrives in a small North Dakota farm town with a population of
24 (including children), the people are naturally going to notice. When they start to plant neo-Nazi flags and
get the attention of the Southern Poverty Law Centre’s internal terroirism unit,
the people are going to get scared. When
the new guy creates a website inviting his neo-Nazi friends to join him under
the headline Cobbsville: White Supremacist takeover, the people have to take
action…
The
two main antagonists in Welcome To Leith
are Craig Cobb, a sweary narcissist who thinks that he is “one of the most
famous racists in the world”, and Kynan Dutton, a self-proclaimed (mentally?)
disabled veteran who desperately clings to his beloved National Socialist
Movement membership: One the archetypal messianic martyr, the other a classic
disciple.
The
Extreme Right are a subculture of semioticians, obsessed with symbols, badges,
crests, flags and costumes. They speak
in myths and metaphors – swords, eagles, the fatherland, bloodlines – and
dedicate their lives to persecuting and harassing peoples whilst lamenting
their own persecution. They hide behind
the first amendment and civil rights, whilst simultaneously talk about genocide
for the ‘kikes’ and ‘niggers’. They talk
of ancient genetic heritages, whilst using their inbuilt Apple webcams to
protectively record themselves upsetting quaint town council meetings. Walking contradictions with low emotional
intelligence.
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| Dutton and Cobb on neighbourhood watch... |
Dutton
and Cobb have convinced themselves that there function as card-carrying White
Supremacists is simply a mirror of the Jewish Defence League (JDL) and the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP): A political and cultural organization
protecting the ethnic heritage of its members.
Yet through incredibly intimate access obtained by the film crew, it
doesn’t take long to hear a cacophony of ugly racism and vulgarity spouted by
the two idiots and their supposedly noble façade collapses. The truth of the matter is that they are both
just thugs with low intelligence, desperate to remain at the top of the ethnic
pyramid in a changing America.
Cobb
is not only narcissistic enough to let a film crew follow (and relentlessly incriminate)
him, he also agrees to go on the talk show Trisha
to have a blood test to prove his Aryan lineage… needless to say, it doesn’t go
well.
Welcome to Leith
is a fascinating story where the private and public lives of ideologues collide
in a small town that only a documentary would acknowledge. Whilst liberal Hollywood is baffled by the
rise of #Trump2016 as they churn out TV and cinema set exclusively in
California and New York – indie documentaries are showing the lives of Midwest
America and how distant it is from the glitz and glamour of the coastal elites.
To
get an insight into the hate-filled America of Clive Bundy, Micah Xavier
Johnson and Dylan Roof, Welcome to Leith…
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