"How can you be inclusive if all you want is the best and brightest?"
How, in 26 full years, in the exact same boat we were in the year 2000? This documentary showed how politics were for everyone back in the year 2000 leading up to the Bush v Gore election from as unbiased a few as possible and yet, it is clear the same issues plaguing our nation then still exist. Many are even to a much larger extent. Education, police brutality, gun reform and yet even then, it still all circled back to money.
At many points I had the same exasperated expressions as Phillip Seymour Hoffman because I hear what these politicians are saying and truly understand nothing ever changed. I was not born at the time of the 2000 election, but this documentary does a great job at showing what people regularly went through at that time. A quote that comes to mind is "All of us, the people, continue to have to put our bodies on the line and risk our lives and give up everything we have in our lives to try and make change because these people won't do their jobs."
When PSH was talking to the young children and the little girl there understood that the white police officers didn't care about Latinos the same way the cared about other races, I almost started crying. Those kids were incredibly smart beyond their years and it was only because they had to be and the saddest part is that nothing has changed for them.
The choice to have shots that flip between what is going on inside the rallies and outside is such a great piece of environmental storytelling. Showing the hardships of these people who just wanted better for the world and being brutalized by the police while politicians and speakers lying straight to the face of their supporters is chilling. Especially when you consider the fact that many of the politicians and speakers were not even campaigning for the wants and needs of the American public.
"How can you be inclusive if all you want is the best and brightest?"
How, in 26 full years, in the exact same boat we were in the year 2000? This documentary showed how politics were for everyone back in the year 2000 leading up to the Bush v Gore election from as unbiased a few as possible and yet, it is clear the same issues plaguing our nation then still exist. Many are even to a much larger extent. Education, police brutality, gun reform and yet even then, it still all circled back to money.
At many points I had the same exasperated expressions as Phillip Seymour Hoffman because I hear what these politicians are saying and truly understand nothing ever changed. I was not born at the time of the 2000 election, but this documentary does a great job at showing what people regularly went through at that time. A quote that comes to mind is "All of us, the people, continue to have to put our bodies on the line and risk our lives and give up everything we have in our lives to try and make change because these people won't do their jobs."
When PSH was talking to the young children and the little girl there understood that the white police officers didn't care about Latinos the same way the cared about other races, I almost started crying. Those kids were incredibly smart beyond their years and it was only because they had to be and the saddest part is that nothing has changed for them.
The choice to have shots that flip between what is going on inside the rallies and outside is such a great piece of environmental storytelling. Showing the hardships of these people who just wanted better for the world and being brutalized by the police while politicians and speakers lying straight to the face of their supporters is chilling. Especially when you consider the fact that many of the politicians and speakers were not even campaigning for the wants and needs of the American public.
