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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time? (2018)

An American documentary by Dinesh D'Souza.
The narrator explains his views on current American politics and the difference between Democrat and Republican parties. He also interviews people who agree and disagree with him.
In America, we supposedly have some kind of laws protecting freedom of speech and press. I think this is covered under those. If the historical reenactments were poorly made, go ahead and criticize it for that. I agree with most of his ideas and think that the historical scenes were shoddy. As far as idealogical and political documentaries go, this fits somewhere between the "more techno than talk, more entertainment than education" Discovery Channel and independent youtube films I've seen and the "more talk than techno, more education than entertainment" films from David Icke, (old) Alex Jones, Jordan Maxwell and Michael Tsarion. It leaned a little too heavily on the entertainment side, though. I was actually laughing about some of it. Liberal Democrats getting all sad because Trump was selected entertained me when it happened and still does. I have a feeling that Conservative Republicans would not have been crying if Hillary Clinton were selected. There were some sections that I thought were a little too "heavy handed": equating Trump to Abraham Lincoln and Democrats to Fascists (including Hitler) was a little bit over the top. What was not heavy handed was illustrating how Democrats and Republicans view people keeping what they earn. This film was rated very poorly by other critics:
"off-the-screen rants... shabbily constructed and artistically bankrupt... cherry-picked facts, overt omissions, inept historical reenactments, slanders, innuendos... painfully unendurable... tedious and repetitive... he's not putting his claims together in any form that makes sense" - Wikipedia
It has extremely low percentage scores on public film review sites and won 2 Golden Raspberry awards. I don't think it's that bad, but that Liberal Democrats got distraught and were the only ones who rated it. I rate this o.k. because it's middle of the road in documentary production and I agree with lots of what Dinesh says.

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