00:00:55.420The vigilante citizen is delivering a brand of justice that some believe the authorities have failed to provide, targeting both criminals and those in power accused of allowing crime to flourish unchecked.
00:01:09.420There's been a lot said about me, so I thought you should hear directly from me. I'm here to help you take that control back.
00:09:52.600You know that we have several wars in our country,
00:09:55.760and we have a dangerous life that's why we are here and i think you know that do you know what
00:10:02.240i think why i don't think it was the good ones that got out of your country i think it was the
00:10:08.600bad ones and i think you brought with you your archaic value system and your commitment
00:10:16.140all right we're on with the director of the film clip you just saw uva bowl right now and and uva
00:10:24.940But we were talking about your motivations to want to make this film.
00:10:30.980For me, this clip right here obviously speaks for itself that this is a clash of civilizations, that there are so many victims, as you mentioned.
00:10:40.600Walk us through the process that went through your mind in creating this film.
00:10:45.960i mean looking the news every day and um there was a case in hamburg in germany where i think
00:10:55.880nine young migrants uh deserved a girl from hamburg and she was 15 at the time and then
00:11:05.320after a long like lawsuit basically i remember they all got off you know they they got like oh
00:11:11.720you're guilty but you're traumatized you're too young whatever so nobody of these guys when was
00:11:18.220longer in jail as like a few months and the press and the judge at that time said like the perpetrators
00:11:28.100were victims also and they sugar-coated the whole thing and i thought at that moment when i followed
00:11:34.460this case like okay so now the perpetrators are back two blocks away because it was all in one
00:11:42.440neighborhood from the raped girl and she has to live with it that the nine guys are basically
00:11:48.200living around the corner again and that cut it for me you know that was like it i mean i read so
00:11:54.200much about this but that was for me like like no like that's like ridiculous and unbelievable
00:12:02.020that the vogue left government in Germany
00:12:07.040tries to sugarcoat this kind of behavior
00:12:27.980And there came like a Palestinians, a free Palestine, whatever demonstration train protected by the police.
00:12:36.700They had a demonstration, free Gaza on the streets.
00:12:40.200And the woman with the bull car on, on top of the car was like yelling, like basically kill the police and kill the Christians and kill basically the Western civilization.
00:12:53.060and she was protected by the western civilization in the middle of frankfurt right and i felt like
00:13:01.640what are we doing here are we completely what how brain dead you have to be in like accepting this
00:13:11.480and everybody who doesn't accept that like what i'm saying here then in europe they would right
00:13:17.400the way say oh there's a nazi whatever you know but i made a movie about auschwitz by the way
00:13:23.040that we shouldn't forget auschwitz you know but that's all like doesn't matter they they are
00:13:29.680brainwashed in a way we never had it in the last 30 40 years uh ever where you have crystal clear
00:13:39.500criminal and bad behavior you know if you make a nice demonstration in iran for gay marriage
00:13:48.160you will see what in iran happens with you you know like the demonstration is relatively fast
00:13:54.520over and you are dead so and from this kind of countries we taking people in and uh it's just
00:14:02.960like i'm i'm speechless about this and i'm i'm speechless about this kind of like when you bring
00:14:08.400the facts to the table that then they flipping out and say you are a racist or something no i'm not
00:14:14.600you know i'm okay living in a country where a lot of different uh cultures are but any kind of
00:14:22.100behavior like violent behavior or not accepting the rules of the country you migrate in uh has
00:14:30.940to be you're out of this country like right away and not like oh now you're here you have all the
00:14:36.800rights like you are born here and the best is we give you voting rights also that we have
00:14:42.460everywhere whatever the sharia law coming up so it's really like this kind of i know nobody would
00:14:49.860do a movie like this there's not one movie like this none so you know and when i finished the
00:14:55.420movie i'm very happy about uh barry and larry from from quiver from the distribution company
00:15:00.920that they took it on and fighting with me that people watch that film because nobody else wanted
00:15:07.760to buy it not one studio not one streamer said oh let's buy this film that's the best idea ever
00:15:14.480you know no they were like oh my god you cannot do this you know and that that's i think it's
00:15:21.700ridiculous in a democracy also that the stuff what gets produced in hollywood or whatever
00:15:28.160It's all like streamlined in one direction. And if you make a movie against the stream, against the majority.
00:15:36.880Yeah. So when you when you set out to even just make the film in the first place, did you face hurdles?
00:15:43.160What kind of challenges did you face just getting a team together, getting actors together, crew, everything?
00:15:49.340i mean it was very lucky that army hammer was available you know and that he uh liked the
00:15:57.980script he saw how strong his character is and i see i mean look at him he would be the best james
00:16:04.820bond by the way yes they're looking for all kinds of james bonds maybe whatever chinese or a woman
00:16:11.380no he would be the good james bond but that's a different subject matter not british but yes
00:16:16.480yeah no not british but he can pull it off and um you know and this this but people are
00:16:24.560i have to two streamers i sent the script and they right away said there is no way
00:16:31.920that we're getting involved was involved with a movie like this and i said why you remember the
00:16:37.380old days where movies mattered like jfk taxi driver apocalypsia now like the movies i
00:16:43.980grew up with they were all relevant they were all hitting on reality hard and reflecting reality
00:16:51.440and now in this area we live now it's all sugar-coated or spaced away
00:16:59.560um like fantasies without any relevance i i think as a director you have to make movies
00:17:07.000they are about now and what's going on they have to reflect the reality we're living in
00:17:17.720And so when you want to make a film that's based on the reality, and especially the reality of, you know, they use this phrase, the lived experience, right?
00:17:27.700What about the lived experience of that 15-year-old girl in Hamburg, Germany?
00:17:32.220What about the lived experience here in the United States?
00:17:35.060We have case after case of illegal migrants, Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungary, Lakin Riley.
00:17:43.040There's so many that I could list over and over and over.
00:17:46.900What about the lived experiences of them and their families and those people?
00:17:53.180And to your point, there are people behind the scenes who are making decisions to say,
00:17:58.440We're not going to show that because that would go against our agenda rather than saying, you know, there wasn't one film.
00:18:07.740One time they showed something like this was the movie Sicario back 2015, 2016.
00:18:13.180It was the only time they ever showed even, you know, direct cartel activity and having the U.S. government, you know, a group of, you know, in that case they were agents,
00:18:24.400but a group of people kind of going rogue and doing something about it.
00:18:28.440that was the one time out of you see and to your point there's so many movies that get made now
00:18:34.560because of the new models that they have for streamlined film that everything gets made over
00:18:39.140and over and over and yet they never make a film like this we have a quick break coming up i want
00:18:44.180to tell everyone and urge everyone don't pirate this movie go out purchase it rent the download
00:18:51.500buy blu-ray copies i bought a number of the blu-ray packages uh with the signed copies
00:18:57.180signed posters etc go you can find those as well i put the uh it's a yippee video so i put that up
00:19:03.420as well yippee ka and go and actually support this movie with your dollars don't just stream
00:19:09.820it for free because this is the type of thing that we need to get behind jack posovic right back with
00:21:27.880I think this is something that really needs to be taught over and over and over
00:21:33.280because schools do not teach any of basic economics to anyone anymore.
00:21:38.160But I also heard in another interview, was this based on something that actually happened to you?
00:21:44.360Yes. And I'm not like Armie Hammer. So I, I didn't have that long interaction with them.
00:21:53.600I told them only what they are, basically, you know, and but it's my favorite scene of the film.
00:22:00.280It's not the most spectacular film, but I think it summarizes it all up.
00:22:04.380If you are only take out of society, the society will fail and goes under.
00:22:13.340And I grew up with rules and moral, and I always got basically teached also by my mother to say, look, you always need an inner accounting.
00:22:24.660You should not owe anything to anybody.
00:22:27.860So you should pay for what you buy and whatever, you know, and don't try to be a freeloader or anything.
00:22:34.380and make sure that you give you know so and i think these basics are all almost gone today
00:22:46.860i mean i'm like looking around and i think a lot of people um a lot of young people also
00:22:56.380they don't have this moral compass anymore and they don't care you know as long they can suck
00:23:03.100something out they're like yeah i got it and if after me there is no life and no society and no
00:23:11.820like kind of economy left then i don't care so that is i put that basically in this scene as a
00:23:19.200you know as a little like um reflection on what i feel is is going on you know it's like
00:23:27.080it felt like a very personal yeah if when i was watching it it felt like a very personal scene it
00:23:33.640felt like something that you were speaking through the screen to a lot of people because look like
00:23:39.960here in in the united states we've just had an election in new york city where mandami who is
00:23:45.880our new mayor there has come in and he's actually promised free buses to everyone and now he's
00:23:52.760electing more people promising free buses and the socialism but what's interesting is that the free
00:23:58.520buses have never come to fruition so they don't exist and now they have to put signs on the buses
00:24:05.240that say this bus is not free because people were going on and they were not paying on the bus
00:24:12.200because he promised everyone this so yes of course a a socialist who lied um you know not the first
00:24:17.400time that we've heard that before but but it actually speaks to exactly what you're talking
00:24:22.440about if people are not paying the system cannot function but then along will come these political
00:24:28.840figures who promise that and they can get so much attention but the system will always fail behind
00:24:35.160them yeah and you only like if you say the bus is free and everything is free in new york as an
00:24:41.160example then you only have a short-term kind of sympathy boost before you tank it all you know i
00:24:51.720mean it's just economically one and one where like maybe everybody loves you first if you are the
00:24:58.500mayor if you're a president of a country and you say oh look you get it all for free health care
00:25:03.640whatever so but it doesn't work because in the end everything goes bankrupt and then nobody gets
00:25:11.120anything anymore so and that's the thing what i think when when you get a little older as me you
00:25:17.740know or your intelligence from the beginning on and you put one and one together then you know
00:25:25.100and feel that this kind of policies never work there's not one socialistic or communist country
00:25:30.900in the world where people are rich where you have a real middle class like and all i know a lot of
00:25:37.620left-wing people in germany here and they're all saying that's the solution and the reality is in
00:25:42.980any form of socialism in the very end you have five guys like putin or whatever they own everything
00:25:52.480like all of it and all this millions and millions of people in america or in europe who are doing
00:25:59.240well and are successful they're all like only as long they can do something with with the with all
00:26:06.340with whatever they had an oligarch serving a dictator and when the dictator don't like you
00:26:11.700anymore he throws you out of the window so and that's socialism in action and all these people
00:26:18.740who when they're young they think socialism is the solution no it's not it's always the end of
00:26:26.640any form of middle class or good life for the normal person exactly right i i couldn't i couldn't
00:26:35.780agree more. And it's not actually about helping people because it doesn't ever help people. It
00:26:41.440doesn't have it. It's never been successful. Anyone can look to East Germany when people
00:26:47.580were trying to flee from East Germany. People were willing to face guards and climb the wall
00:26:53.200and be shot and have the Stasi come after them just so they could get to West Germany so they
00:26:58.420could experience freedom because of what was going on in East Germany in that communism.
00:27:04.000We don't have to go back very far to see an example of this.
00:27:07.480I am being told, by the way, folks, that President Trump is actually giving an impromptu press
00:30:26.800Maybe that's when you lost your North Star.
00:30:28.800When you started using the laws to help people hurt people.
00:30:34.800You know, it's not just the perpetrators. You cause collateral damage, judge. It's people like you, letting people get away with rape and murder. Excusing their behavior. Letting people get away with rape and murder.
00:30:57.600I saw your interview in front of the courthouse.
00:31:00.880I saw you say that these boys just had an adjustment issue.
00:31:08.340All right, well, that was an incredible scene there from this situation.
00:31:14.340And it reminds me of, of course, the great Gerard Butler film of law-abiding citizens set in my hometown of Philadelphia,
00:31:21.820as a matter of fact um uva bowl is the director he's on here with us in in this scene are you
00:31:30.700talking about the the the entire change that people have had when it comes to the law because
00:31:37.580i've i've seen this this was sort of a viral conversation on twitter where someone was saying
00:31:43.260well if i uh if if someone steals from me let's let's make it about theft again if someone steals
00:31:50.060from me then i've lost maybe a two thousand dollar let's say it's a motorbike or something
00:31:56.780but if i report them and they're underage then i'm ruining their life so maybe i should not make
00:32:03.980the report isn't that what we're talking about here the idea of should we allow criminal behavior
00:32:10.620versus should we toddle and be gentle to the actors who commit criminal behavior
00:32:20.060yeah look that i i compare it with when san francisco allowed shoplifting right so i mean
00:32:28.220what is the message like okay uh the message is for the store owner who is the victim like okay
00:32:34.380now i cannot even do anything about it anymore because it's legal so i better close my shop
00:32:40.060and in san francisco a lot of shops were closed and um because shoplifting is also kind of
00:32:46.380robbery is then maybe allowed right so it's not only you take things from the shelf and say
00:32:51.100i'm leaving and nobody stops you and the next step is you hold them on gunpoint say look it's
00:32:58.440basically shoplifting give me the cashier like the money you have in and that should be allowed too
00:33:03.640and i think that's the thing what happened in the last 10-15 years in north america and in europe
00:33:09.680That it's this kind of, we want to be so good and so helpful to everybody, you know, that we basically overlook the damage against the society, against the victims, and so on.
00:33:29.060But also, we overlook exactly what you said.
00:33:32.440You don't do a favor to the perpetrator if you don't punish them.
00:33:38.140because then they will just do harder and harder crimes
00:34:08.140You know, so and that's that's for me this total absurdity that they're all big in talking, but they're very bad in doing anything, bringing anything in action, like in regards of crime, but also in regards of, for example, migration, integration, you know, people coming in and then they dump them in like housing somewhere and then they do nothing, you know.
00:34:34.900and i mean that's ridiculous it's like just the total wasted resource what we do that's the reason
00:34:40.680that i feel we have enough migration and we should stop migration out of countries where people come
00:34:47.380in who cannot like we don't benefit from them it's only the other way around and that's it brings us
00:34:55.320nothing and why we should bring us in the security risk why is this girl was stabbed in the subway in
00:35:02.120america that ukrainian girl right why for what we should never went in that risk at all why
00:35:08.980she's only dead because that guy was 15 times out of jail because every single time somebody said
00:35:15.400you know what he's a poor guy he has mental problems you know yeah and then okay we just
00:35:21.280have him like oh having a good time in the subway and stabs her you know i mean why why that guy
00:35:29.240is alive to be honest right why this guy can run around and do this after being arrested multiple
00:35:36.240times it's it's horrific and the key is it's preventable every single one of these atrocities
00:35:46.940is preventable whether it's migrant violence or violence from a repeat criminal it's because
00:35:52.420society has become so soft on crime, that society has become so unwilling to use the
00:36:00.300actual justice system for the purpose that it was designed, to keep the regular people
00:36:07.300safe, to keep law-abiding people safe.
00:36:10.620People like Irina Zarutska or Henry Novak or all of the victims of these rapes, to keep