Documentary review: You've Been Trumped Too

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+title = "You've Been Trumped Too (2016)"
+date = 2020-11-28
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+tags = ["movies", "documentaries", "trump"]
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+[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.
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+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.
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+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*! 
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+(See, it works, sometimes.)
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+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.