‘The Order’ Review: Jude Law Shines In Justin Kurzel’s Brilliantly-Shot, Sweeping Slice Of Political Americana — Venice Film Festival

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At various junctures in the sweeping slice of political Americana that is The Order, a man will produce a small red-covered paperback called The Turner Diaries, which at first glance, is a boys’ own adventure about a man who sets out to live in the mountains like Daniel Boone.

It is, in fact, a book aimed at children. The main subject of The Turner Diaries, however, is a six-step path to a right-wing revolution that culminates in the “day of the ropes,” when people of color, Jews and anyone who stands in the way of white supremacy will swing.

The Turner Diaries was an inspiration for the fanatics who stormed the U.S. Capitol after the 2020 election. It was also a central text for The Order, a self-styled army formed in the early 1980s behind a charismatic former Mormon, Bob Matthews, whose mission was to make America white again.

As a member of Aryan Nation’s congregation, he had had enough of talk. Bombings, assassinations and war financed by crime were the way to go.  RELATED: Harmony Korine Says Hollywood Is Starting To “Crumble Creatively” — Venice Film Festival Australian director Justin Kurzel brings the same bleak sense of outsider thinking to his Venice competition title The Order that made Nitram, his portrait of the young misfit who carried out Australia’s worst mass shooting in 1996, so chilling.