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Synopsis

Erin Davies, filmmaker of Fagbug was attending an event in support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender rights when she walked back to her car and discovered her Volkswagen Beetle had been vandalized -- someone had spray painted FAG across one side and U R GAY on the other. Davies was shocked and angered, but rather than simply have her car repainted, she chose to use the event to raise public awareness of hate crimes against the LGBT community. Davies mapped out a road trip visiting 58 cities across the United States, some with supportive LGBT communities and others in locations where anti-gay hate crimes had occurred in the past. Davies brought along a small camera crew to document the reactions to her defaced automobile, and Fagbug is a documentary that charts the progress of Davies' trip across the country, as well as recording how people responded, both positively and negatively, to the provocative statement presented by her car. FAGBUG was an official selection at the 2009 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.

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Region Code: 1
UPC: 634479997501

Studio : Victory Multimedia

Languages: English (Primary)

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Documentary

Customer Reviews

Motivation for Good

Amos Lassen wrote on 04/24/2010:

“Fagbug”

Motivation for Good

Amos Lassen

In 2007 on the 11th Annual National Day of Silence, Erin Davies found herself as victim of a hate crime. When she went to her Volkswagen bug, she found the words “fag” and “u r gay” painted on it. She decided not to have the car repainted and she continued to drive her car. By doing this, she turned abuse into defiance and she decided that she would drive cross-country on a hate awareness tour and film the experience. She took a 58 day trip across America and Canada and what she found along the way was even more hatred on one hand and on the other, she had people try to remove the graffiti from her car.
Davies looks at hate crimes in America from just vandalism to murder and she draws conclusions. She learned that the murder victims of hate crimes were killed by white, straight men under the age of 21 and she uses the fact in order to find some meaning in it all. She interviews young men who are both Christian and anti-gay and we see something perhaps we have never seen on film before—sheer hatred.
By and large, Davies’s road trip was uneventful aside from her documenting about 50 hate crimes but she actually only deals with a few in the film. This is a problem with the film—we never hear her speak and when the film is over, it is over and we never know what became of Erin Davies. She claims that the film is her own way of transcending victimization and so she takes her own message of tolerance to the streets. Unfortunately what began as a journey of hope became little more than a hats off to Erin Davies. The message of the film becomes lost in the way Davies makes the film. The movie should not be about her but about our society that allows hatred to exist and about the people who refuse to allow themselves to be hated. This film had the potential to be so much more but instead it becomes Davies’s own pat on the back. The movie could serve as a call to action and compassion and give us the tools for tolerance and understanding. What a pity that it missed the mark.