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| Vaincre ou Mourir (2023) |
It is scarcely possible to exaggerate just what a momentous leap forward the production of this film represents.
The present malaise of the West will never be cured so long as the source of it remains sacrosanct in the popular imagination - the myth of the French Revolution.
Only when a critical mass learns the truth, that the 'Revolution' was an opportunistic oligarchic coup d'etat, perpetrated by an urban élite who, as a consequence, still today wields power throughout the West, will the healing truly begin.
Unlike the Paris coup, the Vendée rebellion, which rose up against the murderous new regime in 1793, was an actual popular movement, that rejected the apostasy of the Revolution and the desecration of creed, culture and country it perpetrated, and faced genocide as a consequence. As a result, history has long preferred that the majority remain unaware the rebellion ever occurred.
It is little surprise, therefore, that the choice of such a subject for the powerful medium of film triggered the scorn of the press, for we today face the same foe that the heroes of the Vendée stood so bravely against, giving their lives in the valiant belief that evil must never advance unopposed.