From 16e1c426fd4d0428c7ee7e36f8af6aa82dc03cf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julio Biason Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 11:20:14 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Documentary review: You've Been Trumped Too --- .../reviews/movies/youve-been-trumped-too.md | 52 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/reviews/movies/youve-been-trumped-too.md diff --git a/content/reviews/movies/youve-been-trumped-too.md b/content/reviews/movies/youve-been-trumped-too.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8a81571 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/movies/youve-been-trumped-too.md @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ ++++ +title = "You've Been Trumped Too (2016)" +date = 2020-11-28 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["movies", "documentaries", "trump"] ++++ + +[IMDB Summary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6158604/): +A chronicle of the confrontation between billionaire Donald Trump and feisty +92-year-old Scottish widow, Molly Forbes. + + + +{{ stars(stars=3) }} + +On the eve of 2016 election, a filmmaker decides to make a point about the +republican candidate for the USA presidency, Donald Trump, focusing on the +struggles of an old lady in Scotland, whose water have been cut with the +constructor of Trump gold course. + +For the plot, you can imagine how it would go: focusing on the "don't care +about others" from Donald, which failed to recognize he (and his business) +harmed some other folk. Also, you can imagine that his whole family -- +specially Donald Trump Jr -- would *also* not give a shit about their actions +affecting someone else. And you can expect that there is a lot of speculation +that the Trump family is actually using politics to force people out of their +homes so they can built a bigger golf course. + +Where the movie falls short, though, is the feeling that the filmmakers thought +they could actually make a dent on Trump's campaign for presidency using just +one story. Sure, a 92-year-old lady that gets cut from her water supply, have +to have her children bring bottled water so she can have water to drink and +only wishes to have a real shower, all that while Trump Corporation (and his +son) keep saying that they will fix the problem, do absolutely nothing and, +when a neighbor takes the matter in his own hand and gets sue for it, it is +infuriating, but you don't expect that voters in the USA -- voters that would +(and did) vote for Trump -- would care about some old lady in Scotland, do you? + +In this line of "trying to make you furious", there are some selected quotes +from voters, like "Maybe she shouldn't have water anyway" from a man, and two +Trump supporters saying they they understand the neighbor going after a power +"bigger than him", 'cause they are also going after a power bigger than them, +which is Hillary Clinton. Oh, sure you understand, but *you're supporting the +power bigger than him, you dumb fucks*! + +(See, it works, sometimes.) + +If they have picked up more stories, shown more people affected by the lack of +sympathy of the Trump Corporation and such, maybe it would feel more like a +real contender, as sad as it is a 92-year-old woman having no water to shower +or even drink.