Sarah and her husband Jarrett (played by Jarrett Kerr, who co-wrote the film with director Sullivan) have perfected the new Underground Railroad to the north but they are concerned about getting this radio signal that doesn’t seem to be coming. The parallels to the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers of today are completely disturbing. With the background noise touting interviews with politicians talking about immigrants flooding into the area and talk of self-policing, this volunteer group sounds like a Neighborhood Watch group on steroids. Sarah and her friends are all waiting for rescuers to get them out to Canada, and they monitor a radio to await a word for help to get them across the border. The Volunteers then carry out their own form of justice, eradicating anyone who is different. The Volunteers in this new world start tracking anyone who is not cis-gender, straight, white and Christian, and keeps track of them with bar codes tattooed bar-coding on their neck. When Sarah kills two guys who are attacking a young guy who almost “has his dick blown off” by the attackers, it puts their safe enclave of dissidents in danger. It is a world where bald-headed Sarah, played by Sarah Wharton, has to suffer “neck checks” for tattoos by rednecks at road blocks because that signifies that you are “different.” The film begins with people trying to learn their new fake identities, memorizing dates, names and places of a past they’ve never experienced. The same angst, frustration and suppression you feel while watching those movies are felt with “American Insurrection.” It brings on the uneasiness of “Handmaid’s Tale,” “Mad Max” and “Red Dawn” in a world where it’s impossible to be different and nearly impossible to survive. Originally known as “The Volunteers,” this film directed by William Sullivan, the film “American Insurrection” shows the United States under a white supremacist militia volunteer group led by a right-wing knucklehead zealot as the president. This uneasy dystopian film is almost like a documentary of today with the way the world of politics has been going on in the United States and other parts of the world.
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